I Read Stories: Magnificent Maurice, Or The Flowers Of Immortality by Rati Mehrotra
Magnificent Maurice, Or The Flowers Of Immortality by Rati Mehrota in Lightspeed Magazine
Maurice is a cat. He lives with a witch at the bottom of the universal tree, that holds together spacetime, upholds the laws of physics and also has flowers of immortality.
Both the witch and Maurice guard the tree. There are other younger cats, but Maurice is not yet ready to let them try and guard. And now someone has broken through to the tree to take a flower and disaster may overwhelm them all.
Read This: It’s cute, it’s about cats, it’s about learning
to let go and make way for others
Don’t Read This: A set of universes that are a tree guarded
by a cat and a witch is too twee
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