The stray black kitten, known to neighborhood kids as Silky, climbs up the screen door to peer into our living room.
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The stray black kitten, known to neighborhood kids as Silky, climbs up the screen door to peer into our living room.
I said I’d foster one adult cat, yet here I am taking three.
My brain Rolodexes forward, backward, cataloging things that won’t stay done as I fight to stay with this moment.
I’d been warned not to stare but was lost in reverence, enchanted by our taut intimacy.
My interviewer has just emailed me that his wi-fi is terrible, and that our video call will now be a simple, old-fashioned phone call. So there’s no one to see that I’ve put on pants—
I imagine a Foley artist expressing the visuals through sound. Scouring pad sandpaper blancmange emery board crushed clothes pegs pebbles slap of a rump steak chewing a wishbone knitting needles stabbing an old balloon filled with syrup.
Mom pushes in between her two Ragdoll cats, Sophie and Angel, feeling their warmth. She squints at the light coming in through the beige blinds and abruptly shifts, causing Sophie to jump up.
It was a Monday, at the vet’s for the second time this month. No crying in the car, she just fell asleep.
I watch myself as I run through the apartment, screaming her name. This is a movie and I am not me but someone paid to be me who doesn’t quite know how to move in my body.