'Ivan the Terrible Part 1' (1999) Rediscovered

Sorting out my eternal jumble of this-and-that (not to mention the-other)  I came across an old story (original notes dated 1999) which I'd composed for an elderly Austrian spinster who lived in a small house with five cats. The lady was learning English and had requested a story in English to read.

Unable to find anything suitable I wrote a story about a cat.  The story was titled 'Ivan the Terrible Part 1'. There is a sequel,  'Ivan . . .  Part 2'  but I haven't unearthed it yet. Perhaps it'll surface one day.

Here are some snippets from 'Part 1':

Sadly the old lady and her five cats including the red one named Ivan are no longer with us. They have, as we say, passed on. I like to think they may be in some other space-time dimension happily doing whatever people and animals do in other parts of the multiverse to amuse themselves if that's possible. We humans who've been around but a brief span cannot know how the ghost in the machine works but other galactic beings from civilizations millions of years older and more advanced than hours may know the trick. We must wait.