Bad Kitty

A toothache, thought Bad Kitty, is like someone else’s dog scratching at your guest-bedroom door all night. A toothache is a cold vibrating funnel sucking in the undone chores (the unanswered emails, the phone calls […]

Bad Kitty was in a fog and an avocado she was squeezing wiggled back— she almost dashed it away but thank goodness she looked down, fearing a mouse or a bat and there in her […]

  Bad Kitty, very much on edge, couldn’t yet look at the magician beside her who didn’t say a word but once again just turned her hand over— another, somehow more feminine little wave, in […]

  “Always the frog,” he said: “never the rabbit,” and began to weep. The frog was white, with sweet dark green eyes, moist and bright. The magician had beautiful sad eyes and his lashes were […]

  Bad Kitty was annoyed enough to get out of her hammock — her detested neighbor, a thug who ran the marina, had had the nerve to walk on to the pier again. He had […]

Just as the Friday half day was wrapping up and she had her bag of reading sorted, Joy the new intern had come in and blinked at Bad Kitty. “I should take the mail to […]

    Bad Kitty’s throat tightened – she vividly remembered now how it had clenched up.  She’d given up on the food and was paying attention only to her wine glass, which was, as always, […]

Bad Kitty – as often when autumn came on bright with its long, slanty shadows – felt the small press inside her chest of damage. Of course, much of the pained feeling was just the […]

    Though Bad Kitty continued to enjoy the havoc wrought by Celia’s leaks—which were still causing heads to roll among those energy executives appointed to EPA–the oligarchy held on, wampum ruled, and new snakes […]

Good​ ​god:​ ​that​ ​self-satisfied​ ​voice,​ ​going​ ​on​ ​and​ ​on: “The​ ​extraordinary​ ​mirror​ ​relationships​ ​of​ ​hacking​ ​itself​ ​and anti-hacking–or​ ​hacker-hunting–programs​ ​form​ ​a​ ​prism​ ​where​ ​every angle​ ​essentially​ ​reflects​ ​the​ ​same​ ​exact​ ​structures…”​ ​Andrew​ ​hadn’t stopped​ ​talking​ ​about​ ​his​ […]