Cat-Tales Catwoman Metafiction Series by Chris Dee

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF" link="#B164FF" vlink="#B164FF" alink="#B164FF" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <p> <img border="0" src="ct/images/coverbanner.jpg" width="630" height="100" alt="Cat-Tales by Chris Dee"></p> <h1>Cat-Tales by <a rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/106540262932566550968">Chris Dee</a></h1> <p><a href="files/CT_Main.htm">Cat-Tales</a> <i>is the real story, a Catwoman metafiction series by Chris Dee.</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Let’s say nearly everything you’ve ever read in a comic book is wrong.  The identities are correct:  Bruce Wayne is Batman, Selina Kyle is Catwoman.  They live in Gotham City.  There is a Wayne Manor, a Batcave and Batsignal, etc.  But the rest is all exaggeration, distortion, and often the outright lies of a tabloid called The Gotham Post, otherwise known as DC Comics.</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Cat-Tales tells the truth behind that fiction, revealing characters that are more complex and fully-human than anyone thought possible.  Heart-stopping romance, side-splitting humor, and poignantly understated tragedy, it’s all here: the man inside the Bat, the woman within the Cat, the life between the panels, the truth behind the masks.</i> </p> <p><a href="files/reviews.htm">Reviews</a></p><hr width="70%"> <h2>Read the Newest Tale</h2> <p><b>Inside an Enigma</b>: Batman's enemies in Arkham and Ra's al Ghul rotting in an Atlantis jail. Gotham should be quiet. And a quiet Gotham is a paradox wrapped in a puzzlement inside a mystery encased in a riddle surrounded by...  <i> <a href="ct/67-inside-an-enigma-00.htm">read the tale</a>.</i><h2>Read the Latest Arc</h2> <p> <font face="Verdana" size="1"> <img border="0" src="ct/images/readerchoice.jpg" width="20" height="20"><b><a href="ct/64-comedy_of_errors-00.htm">Comedy of Errors</a>: </b> Somehow the Rogues got the idea that Bruce Wayne is engaged to Selina Kyle. This cannot end well.</font><p> <font face="Verdana" size="1"> <img border="0" src="ct/images/deechoice.jpg" width="20" height="20"><img border="0" src="ct/images/readerchoice.jpg" width="20" height="20"><b><a href="ct/65-the-gotham-rogues-00.htm">The Gotham Rogues</a>:  </b> Falcone, Bane. You don't trash their dreams without consequences, even if you're The Gotham Rogues.</font><p> <font face="Verdana" size="1"> <img border="0" src="ct/images/deechoice.jpg" width="20" height="20"><img border="0" src="ct/images/readerchoice.jpg" width="20" height="20"><b><a href="ct/66-wayne-rises-00.htm">Wayne Rises</a></b>: What's past is prologue.</font><h2>Read the Best Of...</h2> <p>Not everyone who likes Batman has a keen interest in comic books. While there is plenty for a general audience to enjoy in the first two Cat-Tales collections, there are more references to comic storylines than will be found in the later stories, along with nods to and inversions of related fan fiction clichés and tropes. A general reader might therefore want to begin later and skip around.  To help out, we've assembled some Reader and Author picks for best comedies, dramas, tales focusing on Joker, Poison Ivy, Ra's al Ghul, etc., as well as the favorite Bruce/Selina moments in a series build around the pairing.<p>For newcomers who want a smattering of everything and don't care so much about going in chronological order, click here for <i><a href="files/CT_bestof.htm">The Best of Cat-Tales</a></i>.<h2>Starting at the Beginning:</h2> <p>The Tales are naturally offered as they were written, on the main story page.  Individual tales can be read online, or downloaded in print-quality PDFs or ebook formats.  They're also compiled into five books, available in the same formats.  The gateway is right here:  Welcome to <i><a href="files/CT_Main.htm">the real Gotham After Dark</a></i>.   <p style="text-align: right"><i>-Chris Dee</i><hr width="70%"> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="files/spinoffs.htm">Spinoffs</a> include <a href="jlaint/JLAint_Menu.htm">JLAin’t</a> covers the Justice League  <a href="files/44sp-reapwhatyousow.htm">Reap What You Sow</a> - Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn alternate universe by award-winning fanfic author Allaine and Batman and Dracula battle in <a href="ct-capesandbats/batman-and-dracula.htm">Capes and Bats</a>.</p> <p align="left">Cat Tales Series of Fan Fiction stars Catwoman, Batman and the whole of the Batman Universe as the romance between Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle transforms all those denizens of Gotham City whose lives are intertwined. Spinoff series include JLAin't, the story of the Justice League in the Cat-Tales Universe, Wicked Verse, which chronicles the adventures of Jason Blood and Etrigan, Two-Faced Tales starring everyone's favorite biforcated villain Harvey Dent, and Capes and Bats when Dracula comes to Gotham City </p> <p align="left"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/cattales.by.chris.dee"> <img border="0" src="files/imgs/header_logo_facebook.gif" width="18" height="18"></a> <font face="Century Gothic" size="1"> <a class="whitelink" href="http://www.facebook.com/cattales.by.chris.dee">Like us on Facebook</a></font></p> <p align="left"> <a href="https://twitter.com/cattales0"> <img border="0" src="files/imgs/header_logo_twitter.png" width="18" height="18"></a><font face="Century Gothic" size="1"> <a class="whitelink" href="https://twitter.com/cattales0">Follow on Twitter</a></font></p> <p class="whitelink" align="left"> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/111166928738934927348/111166928738934927348" rel="publisher">Find us on Google+</a> </p> <p align="left">  </p> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="files/CT_Main.htm">Cat-Tales</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="files/spinoffs.htm">Spinoffs</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="http://fanart.catwoman-cattales.com/">Catwoman Art Gallery</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"> </td> <td align="center" width="14%"> </td> <td align="center" width="14%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="about.htm">About</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="contact.htm">Contact Us</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="privacy.htm">Privacy Policy</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="disclaimer.htm">Disclaimer</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="sitemap.htm">Sitemap</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="files/help1.htm">Help</a></font></td> </tr> </table> </body>