The book Ghost Cats of the South, by Randy Russell, includes several short stories. Each of the stories in some way depicts cats that have "crossed over" helping humans in some way. One of my favorites was called Run-Over-Flat-Cats. Run-Over-Flat-Cats is about a trucker, in Birmingham, Alabama that had lost his wife. One day at a rest stop he is awakened by a cat meowing loudly for food just outside the driver's door. He found himself talking to the pacing cat about his deceased wife. The trucker brings the cat along and named the cat Night and Day, but called him Day for short. Day looked like a perfectly black cat that someone had spilled milk on. One evening on the road Day stared out the window and started to hiss as a warning; and something did happen. The Trucker slowed way down and could see there was an all white cat, on its' hind legs, in the middle of the road. He got out to help the cat; by the time he got his flashlight out it was gone. He looked for it on the side of the road, in the weeds. He thought it might be hurt. Further into the weeds he found tire tracks and he thought he saw tail lights off to the right. He ran to the over-turned car. There was a man and woman still inside. The trucker helped them get out just before car burst into flames. He called 9-1-1 but before the woman would get into the ambulance one of the firemen had to find her white cat. They did and she held it although it was dead and had been for hours. The Trucker walked back to his rig with a heavy heart because he knew Day would not be in the locked cage. He somehow understood that Day had been two cats; the white cat from the accident and his wife's black cat. Another one of my favorites is called, Chicken Soup Cat. This story is about a couple who are traveling to Florida so they can have their baby near family. They run out of gas in the middle of nowhere during the harsh winter. The man, Arnie was sick and the wife, Pam, is pregnant. It was too far to walk to the next town. They found an old house nearby where they seek refuge temporarily. Their only hope is if someone drives by and sees their car. Just when they had run out of food and the couple was getting sicker, a cat walked into the house and it smelled like chicken soup. The cat acted like it wanted Pam to follow it. Pam put on all the clothes she had and followed. The cat led her to a little diner that was called Yellow Cat Diner. The cat smelled like chicken soup because the dinner did and that is where it lived. The owner was a very nice man. He gave Pam a job as a waitress and gave Arnie flu medications and a place for them both to stay upstairs. After working for a few weeks they had enough money to move on. So when they said their good-byes the owner/cook said he had been saving up a little something for the baby, a cash bonus. Pam just put the envelope in her purse and they left. In the next town they stopped for gas. In the filling station, Pam stocked up on a few things for the road. Pam was talking to the clerk and she told him he should tell people to go eat at the Yellow Cat Diner. He said that the Yellow Cat Dinner burned down when he was a little boy. Arnie said he would draw him a map and the clerk said to take a camera and get a picture too. But when they went back nothing was there. Pam looked in her purse for the envelope the owner had given her and she found a lot of envelopes not just one, Pam knew he had only handed her one. She took them out and counted the money; there was more than six thousand dollars! The book has many other good short stories that involve cats and is fun to read.