Rita in a leafy bower (Kayte Young)
If political news is too much right now, we’ve got a solution. It’s a story we aired a while back: The Third Time Rita Left. You can find the first two chapters here and here. The story takes place in the fall of 2016. Another election season. In Chapter 3: Missing Rita, things are not looking good. Kayte’s partner thinks Rita was probably eaten by a coyote. Kayte’s boss says cats just have their own plans. But reports are coming in from a neighborhood near where Rita was lost. Has she been sighted? Will Kayte be able to coax her home? What if she doesn’t want to come home? How do you deal with a lost cat and a lost election at the same time? It doesn’t hurt to work in a place that takes your missing cat seriously.