![]() And, of course, when you have a cat that can reason, that narrates long sections of the story, that reads the Bible, well, you know that you have a weird story that will twist around itself again and again. The secrets have secrets, and each narrator is deeply disturbed, unreliable, broken in an essential and violent way. Nothing is as it seems in The Last House on Needless Street. She remembers her past, where she came from, and she wants to get out. Lauren, for her part, hates both Ted and the cat. She brings discord, and when Lauren is there, Olivia has to hide in the broken freezer. She thinks about Ted, about her story, about Ted’s daughter and the fact that something is wrong with the child, something that causes Ted to lock her up. She watches for a neighborhood cat, and she thinks. Meanwhile, Ted’s cat stares out the one chink of window that hasn’t been boarded-up. She’ll finally have the answers she needs to survive. Years ago Ted was the only suspect in her sister’s death, but no one could prove his innocence or his guilt. You see, Dee knows there is something about Ted, a secret lurking in the old home, behind the closed drapes. Sometimes his daughter, Lauren, visits him. ![]() ![]() Here There Be Monsters – Just Not the Monsters You Expect ![]()
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