This blog is a series of short stories based on the public domain idea of a boy, a wild cat, and a boy stuck in a lifeboat. The idea became an international open source idea when the Canadian Yann Martel retold a story by Brizilian writer Moacyr Scliar in Life of Pi. Martel hadn’t even read Scliar’s work. However he had read a review in the New York Times Book Review that Martel mysteriously attributed to John Upike. (Updike for his part, does not recall having written this review.)

In turn this blog is a sequence of stories based simply on the idea of: a boy, a wild cat, a lifeboat. Just as Martel didn’t read Scliar, I am not suggesting that anyone read Martel. The open source idea is: a boy, a wild cat, a lifeboat.

~ A Boy, a Cat, a Lifeboat