“Come on, kitty,” I said, putting her on the hallway floor. “It’s time for my pills.”

A while back some youtubers were doing a 100 page challenge, where you paint the scene on the 100th page of your favorite book. This isn’t paint, but it’s the same principle. Kind of tricky, given that the 100th page was just three sentences. This is from the short story Something In a the Rain by Seanan McGuire in the anthology book Defying Doomsday.

[Image Description: a drawing of a multicolor cat doing a big stretchy to reach on top of a table, in which a white pill bottle labeled “Holly” and “Aripipr” and “10 MG”. Next to it on the table is a long breadknife. There is also a paper Target shopping bag. The background is pretty bare, with just three hooks, one of which has a raincoat hanging from it, and a door with nine square windows, all darkened with raindrops. At the bottom of the page it says in cursive “The end of the world was a misnomer. From where I was standing, the world was continuing on just fine”. End ID]