This story is told, and retold, by dueling authors. Mlanie starts out with the story of a mouse. Then her cat, Chester, sends the mouse packing and proceeds to rewrite the story with his marker, and the gloves are off.

"Chester's finally ready to write his own masterpiece --- he just needs to get pesky writer-illustrator Mélanie Watt out of the way. Chester's solo attempts at storytelling are messy, to say the least, but he's determined to go it alone. But where's his story going? After several alternative (but always unhappy) endings, Chester is confronted by a problem he never bargained for. A wry comment on the creative process and how good stories are constructed,...