Cat Man by Rick Hartford

It is raining hard. Calvin Morgan carries his cats, Betsy and Crazy, To volunteers who have come to rescue the cats of Dutch Point. Dutch Point. People say you could get anything illegal there. If you dared. But now it is home for ghosts, mostly. Dressed for the Wreckers Ball. People call him Calvin the Cat Man. He took care of more than a dozen cats, Abandoned as people left the project. Homeless himself. Living in an abandoned apartment building. Drug dealers still haunt the project. They help Calvin feed his cats. He was one of them, once, he said. Betsy and Crazy are Calvin's favorites. And he was going to keep them. But he is giving them up so they can go to good homes. The volunteers drive away. He cries silently in the rain.