55 everyday things, re-seen by a house cat.
The nest has been overtaken by strangers who will not stop smiling.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human went out into the dark to stand in a black room where a machine screams, and it called this joy.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human returned from the cold with its arms full of boxes it did not need and does not want, breathing hard, eyes bright, like it had just caught…
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has invited the entire loud half of its bloodline into my home, and they have brought the smell.
Read observation → The House Cat KitchenMy human keeps a warm little pond on the desk and refuses to let me drink from it.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has dug a den beneath the earth and filled it with a lifetime of the crunchy cans it never once let me lick.
Read observation → The House Cat HomeSomeone stands beyond the wood and, instead of being permitted to enter, announces themselves with a shrill mechanical shriek that pierces the whole…
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has washed twice today, which is how I know something is wrong.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human put on the stiff dark skins today, the ones that smell of the deep cupboard, and did not once look at the glowing rectangle.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human packed a second self into a bag today.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldThe whole warm cave of this house smells like the inside of a mouth: butter turning gold, something sweet cracking under heat, an animal that gave up…
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has gathered five other humans into the glowing rectangle at once, and none of them will stop making noise.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldThe room has filled with strangers, and I do not like it.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has discovered the second cat.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human paid tokens to walk into a building it already knew would frighten it.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human sits in a room built to teach the body how to wait, and it has learned.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldThe soft ones came, and now they will not leave, and my human is delighted about this, which is the first sign that something has gone wrong.
Read observation → The House Cat HomeMy human has brought home a rival and set it in the good window.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has spent the whole morning shaking.
Read observation → The House Cat HomeThe warm clothes come out of the humming box and my human carries them, still breathing heat, in a woven bowl held against its chest.
Read observation → The House Cat KitchenThere is a small heated cave in the kitchen and my human worships it in three-minute rituals.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldThe building smells wrong tonight.
Read observation → The House Cat HomeThere is a second cat in the flat, and it is a coward.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human came home last night smelling of grass, stranger-sweat, and a strange smoke, its face flushed the way it looks after crying, except it was…
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldA dozen of my humans have queued up outside a small tiled room to stand in a single trembling line, shifting weight from foot to foot, hugging…
Read observation → The House Cat On youMy human keeps its feet in little leather boxes and I have decided this is a captivity of its own choosing.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has found a long wooden shelf outdoors, at the wrong height, made of splinters, and has decided this is where it wishes to sit and think about…
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has driven us across a vast gray field and abandoned the warm growling box in a row of identical cold boxes, as if we might return to find it…
Read observation → The House Cat KitchenThere is a cold white cave in the wall, and my human worships at it the way I worship a sunbeam: constantly, and for no result.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human enters a spinning glass trap and, against every instinct I respect, chooses to leave alive.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldThe humans have arranged themselves in a circle on the floor, my floor, and turned off every good light.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has found a new altar to serve, and this one talks back.
Read observation → The House Cat On youMy human carries a small ring of cold silver teeth that jingle whenever it moves, which is how I always know it is leaving before it knows.
Read observation → The House Cat On youMy human has been handed a strip of dead white ribbon and cannot let it go.
Read observation → The House Cat HomeEvery morning my human steps into the small tiled box and voluntarily summons rain.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldA field of humans has gathered in the dark to twitch at nothing.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human pays to sit on a stationary bicycle in a dark room and go nowhere.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has begun performing for a glowing rectangle that will not even sit in its lap.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has volunteered us both for punishment, and calls it "the commute."
Read observation → The House Cat KitchenMy human approaches the tall humming box with the reverence it never once shows me.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human keeps a small dead thing in its pocket and it will not let it go.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldToday my human wore the softest skin I have ever felt and would not let me near it.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has spent the last hour speaking to no one.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human came home from the retreat softer than usual, and I do not trust it.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has abandoned me before, but never so early, and never carrying its own bed on its back like a snail that has given up.
Read observation → The House Cat HomeThere is a small screaming stone on the ledge by my human's head, and every morning it turns on the human like a switch.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human enters the small moving room, and the doors close it inside like a trap it walked into willingly.
Read observation → The House Cat On youMy human unfolds a small black wing over its head and calls this an act of defense.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human should have been warm hours ago.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has been staring at the glowing rectangle for a very long time, thumb hovering, mouth pressed thin, as if it could will a light into blinking.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has become a chair that trembles.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human is dismantling its own den, and I have decided this is a tantrum.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human carried me here in the little plastic cave with the metal door, the one it only produces when something unforgivable is about to happen.
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has taken everything soft out of the box-shaped den and put it into other boxes, and now the whole territory echoes when I walk it, which is…
Read observation → The House Cat Out in the worldMy human has stopped going to the far place, and this ought to be the finest news of my life.
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