The Author Kat

Stories and Art by Kat

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I would consider it unreasonable to believe in male empathy until you happen upon a man wholly wearing another man's skin, as shoes, in my opinion, show our enemies far too little. .............................................. Read on my website, link bio www.theauthorkat.com Follow me for the latest updates on my upcoming novel "The Professional" . . . #artbykat #storiesbykat #writingjournal #runawaywriters #spilledink #journal #thinkers_and_writers #wordsmith #writer #writers_den #writersconnection #writerslife #writersociety #writersofig #writersofinstagram #writinginspiration #writings #writterscommunity #writtingcommunity #writerspocket #clickmagazine #momboss #artjournal #manifest #manifesting #manifestyourlife #blooms #colorsplash #creativestudio #digitalcontent via @preview.app (at Denver, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3xAwB-nB4b/?igshid=1wcueengnfj7g

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Oscar Wilde is one of my favorite authors. This week I'm taking the time to value what's important. What's more valuable to you than money? Mine is my kids (including my dog & cat kids). . . . #artbykat # #artcollective #artjournal #writingjournal #calledtobecreative #creativity #cutedogs #doggylove #doglover #dogmodel #dogmom #mytinytribe #hippievibes #hippiespirits #hippielifestyle #hippiesoul #hippiegypsy #kidzstyle #holdthemoments #inbeautyandchaos #allnatureshots #pitbullsofinstagram #animaladdicts #clickmagazine #lifeofaphotographer #photographylife #dailyquotes #quote #quotes #quoteoftheday via @preview.app (at Denver, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3sR0tLnQy0/?igshid=18ybijxex71mg

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The leak began in the roof, a small hole of no importance to me; like most, I don’t care for leaks, yet it paid me no mind, and I paid it in kind. 

I could not in good conscious leave it to make its mark, but I could not be bothered with its trivial existence without admitting my own being so gravely stark. 

I awoke one morning to find it brisk, and, having expanded in both girth and boldness, leaving drops of melted snow on the pages strewn across my writing desk. 

The leak had taken to mocking me, surely, knowing I would have covered it, were the pages below it not blank and so distinctly unnecessary.

In all recollection, I had not been moved with words, poetic or otherwise, in some time – and the leak knew. How foolish, some would say (though I wouldn’t know many who would care enough to), being paranoid over something so mundane. What a banal writer I’d become, it’s true, but it was only that roof’s hole that knew.

Hovering above me day to day, watching me twist in my seat, twirl my pen, fold my paperclips, and drum my feet. Word – start with a word – I tell myself, distractedly pulling at drawers and etching things delinquently. 

Distracted was as good a word as any other, I think thoughtlessly, twisting a rubber band tight. Then I write ‘Tick’ as I obsess over the synchronicity of the tick-tock of my old office clock against the subtle thump bump beat in my chest, and my pencil tip breaks before I can produce the expected ‘tock’ that comes next.

It found me out, the great failings of a humorless artist, and I had no choice but to cover it and mourn it, and I know one day I will be a mad man with unpaid damages, rambling regrets of insulting leaks and ruined papers empty of passages.

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