Full collection review available on my blog, 02/05/2022: https://inkandplasma.com/2022/05/02/the-dark-corners-collection

This story was wild. It was longer than most of the other Audible Original Stories I've read, and it started off a little slow. When it picked up, though, it picked the hell up. To start with, this was a quiet story of a girl going through puberty and dealing with her father leaving. She took solace in the feral cats nearby as her stepfather turned from doting to grooming, and as one of the kittens followed her home, they brought her strength too. This was a slow and creepy kind of story, and seeing everything from Mia's perspective only made it more so as our unreliable narrator showed us what she was seeing as her whole world changed. By the end, I was rooting for Mia and Miao Dao and the latter's vicious protectiveness.