Nocturne For Nine Lives is a short story about one sarcastic cat and nine lifetimes of judging humanity from various soft surfaces.
Bleak, bizarre and weirdly touching, it’s a litter tray of dark humour and the kind of wisdom only a creature with murder mittens can offer.
Nine lives. Zero regrets.
Nocturne For Nine Lives follows a sarcastic cat through nine distinct lives, each spent quietly observing humanity from the safest vantage points available.
From alleyways and student flats to eerie ships, failed magicians, overworked humans, and a museum dedicated to everything that didn’t quite work out, each life offers a different angle on survival, attachment, and the strange rituals people use to keep going.
Bleak, bizarre, and unexpectedly tender, this is a book about endings that arrive without ceremony, love that shows up anyway, and the small things that make a life worth living. It moves between the absurd and the quietly devastating, pairing dark humour with moments of stillness that linger longer than they should.
Written in short, episodic lives, Nocturne For Nine Lives is for anyone who has loved an animal, lost one, or found themselves sitting very still, hoping that if they don’t move, the world might be kind enough to leave them there a little longer.