The River Cat's Brother

Future Fables is a series of bedtime stories for adults providing catalysts for conversation, contemplation and quietude. Today's fable is The River Cat's Brother by Aquake A. Amazee - an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist whose narratives are deeply rooted in indigenous ontologies and forgotten histories. In the belly of a jungle where a thousand rivers split into a thousand moore, there lived a river cat with paws as big as heartbreaks and teeth as sharp as hope. When they were cubs, he would attack their little sister, snapping his teeth into her skin as she hissed and fought. As they grew up, the River Cat became almost as big