Written for OLWG #27
The dark coffee swirls in the bottom of the cup – the steam
wafts, I breathe deep and savour the aroma, replace the carafe
Beneath the colonial chair, piled high – covered in books, magazines, and sewing notions
an orange stripey Mama cat crouches
A knotted piece of thread lies still and quiet on the cool wooden floor
it’s already dead, I killed it last night, thinking it was a spider
Blitzkrieg! Mama Kitty pounces with homicide in her eye
her sharp fangs and claws flashing makes short work of murder
She roughs him up some, purely for show, then presents
me with the corpse – a gift, an offering of some sort
Breathing a sigh of relief I sip from my cup – Mama’s guilty;
everyone saw, I’ll get away with it.
This week’s prompts are
- get away with it
- Here kitty, kitty, kitty
- You shouldn’t ask me that
Great piece!
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Cats are such charming murderers 🙂 Especially of thread and wool!
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Fun take! My cat did that once to the ribbon on a wrapped gift. I guess she did not approve of all the loops and swirls of the pretty bow. Anyway, gotta ask: All three prompts, or just two? 😉
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I took a page from your book and went subtle with the third one. Maybe too subtle, so let’s call it two.
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The subtlety works. I just wanted to be sure!
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Groovy. 😎😎😎🥀🥀🥀
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Love the short punchy sentence turning this into a series of scenes – and such scenes. The aroma of coffee pervades beyond the screen.
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delicious depiction. Cats are so fun to watch when they are stalking. now devouring… That is another story all together…..
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You do know that I write before I read… and well now orange and calico kitties are similarly colored…
Fun read.
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I always write first too. I enjoy discovering the similarities and/or the differences. All the takes.
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