Tag Archives: humor

Spring Dread

Oh the misery, oh the dread, knowing the bugs are coming and some will have eight legs. They’ll laugh, they’ll jest, winking too many eyes and building too many webs. So fiendishly evil, like the undead, they’ll relish their spinning … Continue reading

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What If SpellCheck Was More Interactive?

Okay, it’s time I addressed SpellCheck. Well, actually, the red underline beneath words. It crossed my mind that it’s hostile, even angry. A case could be made that’s judgmental, that it’s telling me I’m a failure, not good enough. Yes, … Continue reading

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Killing Tale

Killing mice is no small thing, no trivial thing, and not to be taken lightly. And that is why I tell no lies about mice who die daily. I’m just a cat who likes to chat and that’s putting it … Continue reading

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Dear Fingers

Her fingers, she wondered, what story were they typing? It certainly wasn’t the one her head was thinking. What was up with pesky ring fingers dancing for joy on keys, creating character strings and doing so with glee? Why oh … Continue reading

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The Cat Brain Disconnect

In that public place where cat reporters like to shout, they plied me with questions before letting me out. They demanded details on the cat brain disconnect, so I smiled in my knowing and said, “Oh yeah, that. “It looks … Continue reading

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Touch of Fear

Shadows and lightning, sounds not singing, but screaming instead, where a blade’s flash in the dark is cutting the dead. Fearing the beast, and its expectant feast, first on the menu a hapless prey, the one standing in your shoes … Continue reading

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At Home with the Ghouls

Her house was haunted bliss after she opened the doors and invited the apparitions in. She treasured burials at night when faces disappeared only to return as ghostly white. Oh how she loved Puppy howling at the moon and Kitty … Continue reading

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Butterfly Spit

Oh, drat, what was that, that, that that just spat? Aw, shit, it’s butterfly spit. Eek, the dread, it was on her head. What a wacky notion to gain attention, supposing beautiful bugs could be brutish thugs. Their time in … Continue reading

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Kitty-Proof Christmas Tree

Dearest Santa, with your holiday wiles, know nothing of challenges, of holiday trials. You travel the globe each Christmas Eve, yet you’ve not designed the kitty-proof Christmas tree. Stockings, wreaths, less fun than branches. The night’s tolling tree bells forewarning … Continue reading

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Compulsion

There shouldn’t be edges in the world, she wanted to align them, better that life be wild, all the world curves. There shouldn’t be strings, you know, strings hanging off things, stealing her sleep till they were trimmed. There shouldn’t … Continue reading

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