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.
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.
Penelope is a rat. She lives in my daughter's room and likes to sit on my shoulder and snuffle in my ear.