The Black Tabby Cat
Today was the day he was dreading. He knew they were going to be extremely busy, and quite frankly he wanted to call out seeing as he was already late. His thoughts were briefly distracted by his black tabby, quietly pawing at his legs, ready for its breakfast. He made sure to fill up its bowl before he dashed out the door, returning twice to grab whatever he forgot the first few times. And he was off.
He breathed a sigh of relief as the last customer left. It had been the best sales day of the year, and they were obviously going to celebrate. He had been contemplating going on home, but he needed to unwind too. He had no serious obligations the next day, so he could stay out as late as he wanted. So when they asked, he happily agreed to go with them.
He couldn’t open his eyes. He was barely conscious as it was. He slapped lazily around until he managed to shut the alarm off, before he rolled onto his stomach and buried his face in his pillow. The door creaked as his black tabby walked in and jumped onto his back, where it curled up close to his head. The hot breath in his ear lulled him back to sleep.
The doorbell continued to ring. He crawled out of bed and made his way to the front door. It was his next door neighbor, a kind woman in her late seventies, who still worked. She was in her business suit, holding a trash bag. “Oh did I wake you up? I thought you were usually up by now.” “I usually am.” He said groggily. “But they let me have today off.” “Well I hate to come bearing such bad news so early in the morning,” She said, patting his hand, “but I ran over your dear tabby last night when I got home. I came straight over to tell you but you weren’t home.” He stared at her for a few seconds, before their silence was broken by its footsteps.
I see. I didn’t like this one too much.
not scary at all. the lady ran over a different cat.
You’ve got to be kidding me
I don’t get it…
Eh, not bad. But who was cat?
inb4 BUT WHO WAS CAT??
not very tasty, could have made the story longer. Also could have made the ending more of a shocker
3/10 for effort
Fail pasta fails.
I liked it, but I don’t understand how it’s rightly creepy. The old lady could’ve just hit another black cat, and and thought it was his.
saw it coming from a million miles away. stale pasta is stale. As old as creepy stories themselves.
I normally try not to do this, but it feels just so appropriate in this case.
BUT WHO WAS HOT BREATH?
This story’s been done before, hasn’t it? Awakening was something like this. “Oh, let me hug my blanket nice and close. Yeah, that’s nice. Oh wait! My blanket’s on the floor. Oh sh-”
Don’t Worry About It was that way, too. “I’m being hugged by my wife. Oh that’s not my wife! Oh sh-”
Then there was that story with the dog. “I’m patting my doggy’s head cuz it makes me feel better. Gotta go to the bathroom. Oh! Here’s my dog’s corpse. OH SH-”
Besides, if the thing didn’t eat him while it was cozied up to his neck, why would it do it now? It was just a stray cat in his apartment, that’s not creepypasta.
7/10. It was still alright.
Another joke pasta?
wut?
THEN WHO WAS CAT?
FIRST
LOLWUT? No seriously, what?! This is a terrible pasta… First 2 paragraphs are completely irrelevant. So is the cat a ghost, a zombie-cat, or just a badly wounded cat who crawled back in and licked his ear while bleeding all over and making a mess? The unoriginal title made me not expect much but this was just… dumb
Ok so I read it again… it still doesn’t make sense cat’s dead.. but WHO WAS FOOTSTEPS?
Not well written at all nor creepy. It jumps around too much and the ending is very poor.
Wow. Really? That was it? It’s like somebody took “Who was phone,” added “Humans have tongues too,” blended them liberally, and strained any actual creepiness out of it until it had the taste and consistency of grits.
You can only re-boil old pasta so many times before it goes to mush. 2/10, and I usually like /everything,/ so…
A poor effort resulting in a poor story. It all this “he saw him/her/it and then was dolt that she/he/it was dead.”
I think someone should filter out submissions that make no attempt to deviate from widespread templates.
Lame!
Well that was crap.
Wait, what?
This is either really creepy or sad and I can’t tell which.
BUT WHO WAS ZOMBIE CAT ?????
OH
SHIT
That fucking sucked.
BUT WHO WAS KIND WOMAN?
At first I was like “meh”, but I think I liked it. It wasn’t too creepy, but it was OK. It’s more like an Aw-pasta rather than a Creeoy-pasta. Kind of cute.
PD: I have a black cat.
ZOMBIE LOLCAT ZOMBIE LOLCAT ZOMBIE LOLCAT!
As disturbing as it would in the situation, I can’t help but feel a sense of “oh how sweet, it loves me/this house so much it came back from the dead”… am I twisted for thinking that?
Or if they’re implying it’s not actually the cat… then I’m scared.
*facepalm*
Reading this made me die a little inside.
Who was tabby?
Not really that creepy or scary. Decent, though.
Yay,Ghost cat
So, Basically, She ran over some other black cat…
Also, WHO WAS KILL?!
Oh, god, I don’t want to THINK about that.
Meh. Wasn’t all that impressed.
Now that was a decent pasta. Had a very back-to-basics feel that worked in its favor, IMO.
This is a bit like a classic children’s horror story with a dash of Pet Cemetery. I like it.
It’s funny because the robot ain’t got no arms.
Almost forgot- BUT WHO WAS IT?
Oh shit, I kinda skipped over it for a second, then I read the last part again. I have to admit jumped. That was a very good pasta.
I jumped*.
Meh.
That could’ve been any damn random cat she ran over.
Poor storyline. Ghost kitties? I don’t think so.
I did like this, short and sweet and packed a punch. It was delivered pretty well just 1 minor problem, I knew exactly what was going to happen.
Uhhh? Seems to be a crappy attempt at actual horror.
It takes a twisted mind to write horror[See Poe]
I WANT MY FOOD 8B
really wish that the name didn’t hint you in on the important story elements.
change it to “The Sales” or something, please?
wasn’t that scary. I was expecting a more epic scare at the end.
This was way too predictable. This is one of those scary stories that people tell each other at a sleepover or campfire.
THEN WHO WAS CAT!
(
)
BUT WHO WAS PHONE?!
Seriously. This is just a fucking rewrite. Nothing original, except you changed the girl’s dad to a freakin’ tabby cat.
A solid 5/10 for the writing, which wasn’t bad.
But I’m giving you a 2/10 for the concept.
Not at all creepy.
can the Title of these stories be created a little differently than the ‘twist’? It probably would have caught me off guard if the freaking title wasn’t screaming SOMETHING’S GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THE CAT OMG!!!1111
I’ve seen a bunch of pastas ruined because of the horrible spoiler titles =/
Um…I totally don’t get whats going on…this makes no sense. TERRIBLE pasta.
I saw that ending coming : ( It reminded me of the one where you couldn’t get to sleep because the books kept falling, and you kept pulling your “blanket” over your head…
I liked it though – the writing, anyway. I hated the fact that the cat died, because I’m a huge cat fan D: It just made me sad and hug my own cat xD
OH. MY. GOD.
She ran over another cat. I AM SCARED OUT OF MY FRIGGIN’ WITS.
this is like one of those lame pasta’s that aren’t creepy at all.
like candlejack that shit was so ga-
Are you kidding me? This isn’t creepy in the slightest. This is just a story that leads you to wonder how badly the cat is injured. Sucks, to be honest.
What a catastrophe of a story, a midnight pussy being hit by a catallac…just another copycat of other shitty stories; a duplicat of epic proportions
My jokes were better than this pasta, not even kitten
awww, ghost kitty.
1/10.
Yea.. maybe if it was a person or something..
That was pretty bad.
This makes me want to write a story called “The Twist” that doesn’t actually have one.
I would have liked it better if the cat had a distinctive coat. Because the old lady could have hit a different black cat and thought it was his. But if the cat was a fluffy calico, it makes that situation unlikely.
Also, “She was in her business suit, holding a trash bag.” I suppose this is to indicate that the cat was in the bag? [But is apparently out of it! Oh ho ho! I am such a wit.]
Some more detail would have made this pasta enjoyable.
Bricks have been shat
See, the question everyone missed was, “THEN WHO WAS BAG?”
Tabby and black are two totally different coat patterns for cats. There’s no such thing as a black tabby, I’m not reading this shit.
.. not very tasty.
btw: normally you can’t really hear a cat walk, run maybe, but not walk.
I agree with most of the comments. If there had been some foreshadowing (i.e. the cat having cold breath instead of warm) and of some strange behavior from it (clawing at injuries, biting its owner, becoming hungrier and hungrier…something remotely scary) then maybe this would have been creepypasta. As is, it’s a bit “kiddie horror story collection” (Agreeing with HILARIA).
i like this one
it wwas…… okay
BUT THEN WHO WAS PILLOW
Also, CAT WAS WEIRD FAPPING BEARD MONSTER FROM THAT OTHER STORY :3
(cont.) The black tabby wandered into the room stretched and yawned. “Mrs. Birkowitz,” he said “that’s not my cat.” “Oh,” she said as she squinted at the bag “well I guess I should go throw this out. You have a nice day off now.” He closed the door and rubbed his eyes. Then he poured his tabby some milk and watched some T.V.
twilight zone feeling here
Comments made me laf. She must have hit another cat, if the cat that was breathing on him was his so it’s not even creepy -.-
So the lady ran over a cat, that just so happened to be black? OMG THERE ARE LEIK NO BLACK CATS IN THE WORLD AND THE ONE THAT HE HAD WAS THE LAST OF IT’S KIND!!!1!ONE…. Fail story is fail.
made me think of a goosebumps or something i read when i was like 9
CAT WAS FONE!!!!!!
Like lots of people said, it could have been another cat. The story itself wasn’t too bad though, it was just sad rather than creepy. I wouldn’t mind a ghost cat cuddled up to my neck. It sounds rather appealing.
Right…so umm who was phone?
@Sama – lol u make a good point. I’ve read this 1 b4, on creepypasta.net, as well as da 2 above it.
@ppl dat thnk therez a ghost cat – theres not, its staposta b sum serial killer/hot breath monster thing. also, why not run if you hear it come down stairs. i’ve only seen one house that had the staircase come out right in front of the front door, nd dat burnt down, so I guess datz karma
doodz. cats have nine lives in superstition correct? i think its referring to that. it lost one of its lives. not a zombiecat.
ghost cat comes back to cuddle with his owner. not creepy. very beautiful.
The cat who breathed on him was actually just an obese man in a cat costume.
She ran over the wrong cat. CREEEEEPYYYYYYYYYYY
BUT WHO WAS LAST CUSTOMER?
Not scary at all, she could have run over something else and mistaken it for his cat.
I don’t get- …
Oh. I see.
Uhm… Yes. I think nex is right, because of the last line.
Pasta is too vague.
I don’t get- …
Oh. I see.
Uhm… Yes. I think nex is right, because of the last line.
Pasta is too vague.
God, it was either a different cat that she ran over, or a stray in his house. Not. Even. Close.
What is this I don’t even
i dont get it at all…. :/
Did you seriously not get it you guys?
Cat dies, becomes ghost cat. THE END!
How can a tabby cat be black?
Are you stupid..?
How can a tabby cat be black?
Are you…are you stupid?
I wasn’t scared, but I did feel bad for the cat. It sucks when your cat gets hit by a car, it fucking sucks big time.
What kind of self-respecting man has a pet cat?
So… It’s Binks… The boy turned cat in the movie HOCUS POCUS. He couldn’t die.
Yup, that’s what I’m going to go with.
i feel like the ending was cut off
it would have been better if they had like a way to recinize that it was his cat like an ID
i feel like the ending was cut off
it would have been better if they had like a way to recinize that it was his cat like an ID or if they had seen the \’cat\’ and it wasnt the cat or a ghost
Ok, seriously, who the fuck has ears good enough to hear a cat’s footsteps?
BUT THEN WHO WAS TRASH BAG?
Stupid