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06 ADU VOICE · SPRING 2022

The

Scaredy

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Cats Ch a lle n ge

WRITTEN BY VIOLET SARAH PRINCE (1080030)

apologize to all the cat lovers who might
find this absurd but I am an ailurophobe –

someone with an intense fear of cats. Those
I mischievous furry little creatures might seem
cute from afar, but they horrify me up close, and I
think they know that (which makes it all the more
annoying).

Aren’t you curious to know why I dislike these
creatures? When I was 13, my family used to have

a tradition of telling scary stories on Halloween.
That night, my friend narrated ‘The Pet Sematary’,
a book written by Stephen King. It tells the story
about a doctor who moves into a small town with
his wife, children and pet cat. The cat which dies in
an accident one day, is buried in an ancient burial
ground nearby. Disturbingly however, it returns
home the next afternoon – with a dreadful stench
and an obsession to rip apart little animals.

Until then, I had never really noticed cats, but that
story changed everything and I found myself being

really intimidated by them. Even the slightest hint
of being close to one gave me the heebie-jeebies.

One night, I went out to my garden to pluck some
roses my grandpa had planted. I had forgotten to
bring a torch, but knowing where the roses were,
I walked towards them in the dark.