“My Eternal Cat”

This is a heartbreaking short horror/tragedy comic by Tum Ulit.

A lonely, awkward man sees a tiny, shivering stray kitten on the street one night. He’s moved by pity and decides to take it home. At first he’s overjoyed: he runs home smiling, buys toys and food, and dreams of finally having a companion.

But the moment he brings the kitten inside, everything goes wrong. The kitten is terrified of him and keeps trying to escape. Whenever he reaches for it, it bolts. It falls into drains, hides in impossible places, scratches him, and refuses to be touched or loved. The harder he tries to care for it, the more it rejects him and gets hurt in the process.

He becomes obsessed. He chases it through the streets at night, tears up his apartment looking for it, and slowly loses his mind from exhaustion and rejection. In one particularly disturbing panel, we see him happily tearing open a large gift box while two small children watch in horror; inside is the same tiny kitten, now crudely “packaged” like a doll, limp and clearly suffering.

Years pass. The man is now married with two young children of his own. He seems to have moved on and built a normal family life. But one night the children find the old purple gift box in the closet. When they open it, the same tiny kitten is inside; perfectly preserved, still alive after all these years, glued into place so it can never run away again.

The final panels show the man quietly holding a bottle of super glue, staring blankly with the same empty expression from the very first night. The “happy ending” we thought he found was an illusion. He never let go. He never will.

The horror isn’t supernatural; it’s the quiet, realistic descent of a lonely person into possessive madness, all triggered by a creature that simply didn’t want to be saved by him. The kitten becomes a symbol of anything that rejects love, and how some people respond by forcing it forever.