Tooth and Claw
Short story about a young man who wins a serval, a type of African wild cat, in a bar, and with it almost acquires a girlfriend… The boss had called at …
"The weather had absolutely nothing to do with it—though the rain had been falling off and on throughout the day and the way the gutters were dripping made me feel as if despair were the mildest term in the dictionary." — a man walks into a bar