CAT DISTRICT / OCTOBER 26, 2026 / STREET DESK

MONDAY’S PAPER / OCTOBER 26, 2026

THE STREET
HEARD THINGS.

Three stories. Three overheards. No one behaved.

OVERHEARD BY THE VENT / OCTOBER 26, 2026

THEY SAID
WHAT NOW?

Fictional overheards. Nobody here can be trusted.

“I bought noise-canceling headphones. Now I can hear myself chew. I’m worse.”— a woman, taking them off
“That’s not a costume. He’s like that.”— a cat, watching the dog greet trick-or-treaters
“She made a space for me between the pillows. I’d only been there an hour.”— a newly adopted cat, home already
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