I like cats E-Book

Danielle Reid

• Herausgeber: epubli
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 39

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

As she returned from school, she would trace down her cotton socks and slide into an online world filled with cats. Follow an impressionable, young girl into the depths of online obsession and curiosity where loneliness becomes pacified through sexual exploration and disappointment.

Leseprobe

I like cats

by Danielle Reid

Returning from school, she would remove her black school shoes with her toes from the opposite foot without undoing the laces. She would hold one hand on the side of the door for balance and gasp as she hurriedly fought first with her shoes, then blazer, which finally gave in and was thrown on the floor in a fit of frustration. She would run into the kitchen, pour a generous dollop of full-cream milk into a bowl and fill it up vigorously with a tower of coco-pops and sugar. Spoon already in her mouth, she would gallop into her bedroom and encourage the door closed with the back sole of her white socked foot, cereal bowl still balanced skillfully in one hand as she slid into the chair in front of her laptop. Putting the Coco-pops bowl down next to the laptop, she fingered at the case, lifting the silver beacon of delight open to reveal the power button and stubbily fingered at it to see the companion she had waited so desperately to see illuminate in a glorious comeback of comfortingly blinding, white light.

She loved cats. There was no reason, no logic to it. It was simply a love that didn’t need justification. They were there with all of their magic, fuzzy hair and shiny eyes like those of slithering snakes, both mysterious and mesmerizing. Cats were simultaneously lovable and fluffy and could be soft and floppy with heavily weighted legs and rubber band backs, or they could be as tense and tight as strung out trampoline springs eagerly waiting to frolic forward and catapult into reality. She couldn’t explain the magnetism that the cat held. It was like a desire that needed to be fulfilled, but despite her greatest efforts spent in front of her laptop constantly stimulating herself by posting cat picture after cat picture onto her blog, there was no satisfaction and she still searched for that drive and fulfillment that she got out of her daily time spent reblogging cat picture after cat picture.

Some of the photos she posted on her Tumblr blog were humorous. There were cats wearing ridiculous hats. Some cats looked deeply unamused and this, in itself was incredibly amusing. Many of the cats were photographed in obscure positions—paws wildly outstretched and clawing manically at the camera. They leapt and jumped, frozen by the flash of a camera and posted in pixels on Tumblr. Some of the cats were just plain cute. They had little noses and tiger-like stripes and were tinier than your fist. She liked these images in particular, but the problem was, that in order to maintain variation in her blog, she had to find new and captivating cat images so that she could really make it cool and entertaining without excess repetition. It was quite important for her to feel as though people valued her blog and she enjoyed getting new followers and comments. It was like a tiny little light that made her feel just a little smug and brim with the knowledge that someone, somewhere liked the same thing that she liked.

The animated gifs were something really amazing. They completely captivated her and she would gently watch the gif loop as she slurped the last of the remaining chocolatey milk from the cereal bowl. She could sit there for some time watching the cat statically jump like a giddy fool at the mouse which was actually a toy on a stick as she, herself tenderly pawed at her hair and smiled inwardly, glowing with pleasure. She would aim to post at least one new animated gif of a funny cat every night. This doesn’t sound like a huge challenge to you or me, and it wasn’t for her at the start, either.