Cat Calls (3 page)

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2009 by Cynthia Leitich Smith

First appeared in Sideshow:
Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists, and Other Matters Odd and Magical,
published by Candlewick Press. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.

First electronic edition 2010

ISBN 978-0-7636-5743-7 (electronic)

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