A Tail From The Other Side

When KinKoo, a gray and white tuxedo cat, opens his eyes on an early Sunday morning in Nelsonville, Ohio, he knows two things with complete certainty: today is the day he will leave this world, and he is not ready to say goodbye to Mason — his human, his best friend, the person he has lived beside through every city, every heartbreak, and every late night at the desk for seven extraordinary years.What follows is a journey unlike any other.Refusing to accept the cosmic laws that would send him spinning into another form entirely, KinKoo escapes the Other Side's Reincarnation Circus and sets off across a violet sea, through forests haunted by the grief of those who couldn't let go, and up the face of a mountain where the enlightened wait — all in pursuit of a single impossible promise he made in the last moment of his life.Back in the small apartment in Nelsonville, Mason is learning to carry the shape of the absence. He is writing, grieving, searching — the way he has always searched — for the something more that has driven him since childhood. He practices his Kriya, tends his animals, and holds quietly to a belief that refuses to go out: that love this real doesn't simply end.A Tail From The Other Side is a story about the bonds between humans and animals that outlast every border we thought was permanent. It is a story about grief and acceptance and the stubborn, magnificent refusal to stop believing in magic. It is a story about what love actually asks of us when it is fully itself — and about two souls who have been finding their way back to each other across more lifetimes than either of them knows.For everyone who has ever loved an animal and wondered where they went. For everyone who has ever looked at this life — truly looked at it — and thought: there must be something more.There is. Read more