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A disturbing Mouseland Christmas 

Based on the fable by T.C. Douglas and updated to reflect politics in 2024.

It couldn’t be the giant Christmas snowflakes outside Scott Cat’s Marble Palace window this Christmas Eve making that damnable squeaking noise.

Weren’t those falling snowflakes just a pastoral scene-setter to innocently draw us into this imaginary allegorical kingdom of Mouseland? Surely, there was nothing sinister or frightening about snowflakes, unless …

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Were they really snowflakes? Could they be chemical trails from alien spacecrafts, as described at that strange critter gathering this summer? The black cat leader of Mouseland made a mental note to have one of his staff check this out.

Was the noise coming from the distant south, where lived a big, ugly mean ol’ orange tabby (black cats could be dyed just about any colour) about to tax everything in Mouseland that........

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