#3 China Cat (Hello? hello?)

business hours…’ Cora developed the habit of talking to her every night. She knew after Carole left; the lights would go out soon. It got so Carole would leave of her own accord, going out in the hall; Cora didn’t even have to kick her out. Carole read, did word searches, or talked to other ‘hall people,’ as the light was kept on all night. China knew her whole life story, as she told it to the hall people over and over again. Either they were too polite to say anything

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#1 China Cat (Psych Patient)

Nobody believed a psych patient, so they just had to make the best of it. In some ways, the four-year-old was more mature than the adults, but in some ways she wasn’t. Carin and Colleen were in the beds, closest to the door, on either side. They knew they were friends, did everything together, and planned to live together when they got out, but what they didn’t know, was that they were lovers. During the day, they went to mandatory recreation and fresh air together, but th

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#2 China Cat (The Asylum)

They called her China Cat and it was a good name because she had at least nine lives. It could have been her long black shiny hair or slight build. Maybe it was her name, because of her perfect dark skin or her slanted eyes; who knew. She was born in the USA and it was the sixties so they still had institutions, and since she was indigenous, they were only too willing to accept her into one of them. Heaven was one of those places. They selected it because they liked the

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