Rereading Freedom's Just Another Way For Nothing Left To Lose, and I was pleased to see that the writer didn't think it was actually a desperately sad story. I really enjoyed it, but I'd been expecting to find it heartbreaking - and I really didn't.

Meanwhile: Air is a rather lovely wee Kaylee/Inara story, set post-Big Damn Movie.

Oh, boy, my favorite terrible Nikita writer is back with a vengeance.

On this weekday night, the droning boring sounds of the 11:00 o’clock news were muffled by the screams of a distant siren and the screech of a male cat in heat.

Oh, hilarious! That's just perfect.

Tune in next week on When extraneous details are the ones that make you look stupid.

I wanna know more about the transsexual cat.

As shrift goes, so goes my nation.

I'd be careful what you wish for. You might get a six-chapter digression about the cat.

Maybe the sort of heat the male cat is in has more to do with that urban legend about pets in the microwave? I know getting cooked would make me screech.

I'm sure the cat's story would be more interesting, and more filled with plausible (even for a male-cat-in-heat) sex.

....is it feline MPreg?

Has Michael been turned into a cat?

I've honestly lost track of which character Michael is supposed to be in this story, with the whole crossover with "The Barbarian Invasions."

Or, wait, I think Michael's in it, but the character he played in the movie is also in it. Or something like that.

Did I mention that Nikita is basically the Ghost Whisperer?