Thus begins the surreal story of an old man who is left alone in an empty world after everyone else on Earth has killed themselves for no particular reason. In search of other survivors, he drifts into a houseboat until he reaches a mysterious structure in the middle of the ocean. This is a building that looks like two giant naked women connected to each other. And out of the illuminated window, coming from the ghostly wind, comes the sound of hundreds of meowing patchwork cats. Sea of the Patchwork Cats A Sad Tale in the Quiet Ashes of the Human Race Be sure to read for fans of prose Mellik, as well as for fans of the "Twilight Zone" .