The stories in White Cat, Black Dog are tales about this kind of fairy, the ghosts of our past and of our future—a reminder, like the billionaire’s sons, of the limits on our time in the sun.

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Fiction by David Means: What matters is that a few weeks later the two of them found him on the corner of Fifty-third and Woodlawn, a street cat with matted black fur and a smear of white.

Felix was co-created by a team of cartoonists, including Patrick Sullivan, in Manhattan in 1919, nearly a decade before Mickey Mouse was born.

Black and white cats are commonly known as tuxedo cats. This name often relates to the pattern that the black and white colors create in its coat. There are other patterns, so you can even hear ...