39 everyday things, re-seen by a house cat.
They have gathered in my living room to celebrate a human that does not yet exist.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human came home last night smelling of other people.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human returned last night in a state I have only ever seen in myself, and only during a hunt.
Read observation → The House Cat KitchenMy human has one clay vessel it loves more than it loves me, and it isn't even warm most of the day.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has dug a den beneath the ground and filled it with more food than it could eat in nine lives, which for a human means one.
Read observation → The House Cat HomeMy human has installed a small paranoid god by the entrance, and now it answers to a chime instead of to me.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human spent the afternoon smelling like fruit that does not exist in nature, standing before the mirror, arranging and rearranging the fur on its…
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human put on the black wool that smells of the cedar closet, the coat it only wears when the sky has done something wrong, and we did not go…
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human packed a bag last night, and inside it was another face.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has brought home a paper collar it wears around its wrist, and now the whole apartment reeks of ambition.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human paid to be frightened, which is the single most human decision I have ever witnessed.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldThe good ones have finally gone, and the warmth has begun to leave with them.
Read observation → The House Cat HomeMy human has brought home a rival, and it cannot even walk.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human is practicing being liked at the mirror again.
Read observation → The House Cat HomeMy human has provided me a boat.
Read observation → The House Cat KitchenMy human keeps a growling box on the counter, above my head, in territory I have not yet annexed.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human's smaller human came home tonight smelling of sugar and fear, and I understood at once that it had been to war.
Read observation → The House Cat HomeMy human owns a portrait of a cat that lives inside the wall, and it is furious that I refuse to acknowledge it.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human paid to stand in a field and be uncomfortable.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human left a warm apartment, a full food dish, and the good patch of moon on the rug to come stand in a line like this.
Read observation → The House Cat On youMy human keeps its feet in little leather cages by the door, and every morning it kneels to lock itself into them like a prisoner grateful for the…
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human led me nowhere today, then sat down on it.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human parks the metal box in a field of identical metal boxes, then stands there, blinking, having forgotten where it left the one that matters.
Read observation → The House Cat KitchenMy human keeps a cold white cabinet in the kitchen that hums to itself all night, a low steady purr, and I resent that it makes this sound without me.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldThe humans have installed a door that goes nowhere and keeps them for a while first.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has gathered its friends in the dark to speak with the dead, which is a thing I do every night, silently, from the top of the bookshelf,…
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has found a new friend who does not love it back, and I am delighted.
Read observation → The House Cat On youMy human carries a small ring of jagged metal everywhere it goes, patting its pocket in a panic at every doorway to confirm the ring is still there.
Read observation → The House Cat On youMy human keeps the strip of paper.
Read observation → The House Cat HomeEvery morning my human enters the small tiled cell and voluntarily stands under falling water.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human pays to be shouted at in the dark.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has begun performing for the glowing rectangle as though it were royalty.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has trapped itself inside the moving-box on purpose, and now the box has stopped moving, and this, apparently, is a tragedy.
Read observation → The House Cat KitchenMy human stood before the humming box for a full minute, feeding it thin paper and small coins, as if the box had earned them.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human stood in the tallest room I have ever not been invited to, wearing white, which is the color of the fur I shed onto black trousers as a gift,…
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human paid to leave the house and go be uncomfortable somewhere with worse blankets.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human dragged the wheeled box out of the closet at an hour when even the birds have the decency to stay quiet, and now we are somewhere I did not…
Read observation → The House Cat HomeMy human has appointed a small screaming box to be its master, and me its witness.
Read observation → The House Cat On youMy human owns a machine for arguing with the sky.
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