John was surrounded by a clowder
of cats trapping him in his shelter
They were

Undernourised for human flesh
Haggard with dilating glowing
chips of silver green and golden
hues

spearing through, the dim retreat,
Lit by a few waving candles and
Climbing shadows. Their

Bladed claws and famished
lips
of strings of drools, heads
outstretched

skulking towards him, paws
like blades,
getting nearer.
Pink tongue grooming,
licking off
Human blood soup.

***
A few years pass a secret military unit are called in
For clean up, and cover up

You might wanna take a look
at this serge
Did you bag the rest of them
private?

Yes sir

OK well play that recording then
We have half an hour until extraction

Before this whole town goes up into
smoking fragments

Click....

The town is overrun lately, by
wild cats, roads covered in fur
and excrements, skin have
been found stripped

completely away, from bones
and
gnawed to splinters, houses,
stores

been raided, town folks have
now been
hunting them for months, under
the blood red moon
nothing a deputy or sheriff

can do, too many to
put away behind them cages.

some dark as fire smoke, some
coated in honey and cream,
waiting in darkness of heights
of knarly trees.

They are feral, and brutal.
Emigrating spilling from god
knows, where.
Resettling into pockets
and burrows
tunnels then onto domestic homes.

Your house cat will change into
something evil if you don't
keep it indoors. We are trying
to prevent anymore bloodshed

it needs to stay away from
others because it will become
infected, from fights because
of lacerations open wounds
so keep it under your roof

Are experiments have shown
a psychological and
transformative change
if they mix they do mutate

Also the red melting blood
Moon infects their behaviours
we have had for months now
It hasn't vanished, or faded.

Its become a war zone

Rifles and twelve guages
are ripping open
the atmosphere
with terrifying stretching
screams.

We have become butchers
now goddamn savages
some are just
doing it for sport
and trophys

I'm heartsick, i am now among
the pitilessness. I used to help
the stricken now I've become
them.

People have been found
dead
skins have been sliced
open and
necks been ripped apart by
mobs, of feline killers

we have witnesses
and recordings. We did go
viral, but the Internet
soon lost its signal

Conspiracy theorists
reckons the
government are
involved in this or its
an scientific experiment

or to depopulate or some
goddamn witchcraft
but nothing specific
just them rumours

Bzzzz
Bzzzzbzz crackles inteferece

These are new breeds
hungry
for human
meat, guts, intestines
and
Hemoglobin rivers

not wanting treats and
cuddles,
they want
your internal gelatinous
organs,
pulpy brains
and binding meat suits.

I'm recording this
before they sniff me
out

my names John Stone I
was the town
veterinarian and Field
biologists.
two
shells left goddammit

***
Back at the hideout. The military destroy any
Documentation, logs and records

That's enough private I
have heard
enough destroy it
and move out. And private
Yes sir
This never happened