Cage 42 Oscar: The Cat Who Turned My Apartment Into a Trial

she hesitated, like she was about to cross a line.

“Can I ask you something?” she said.

“Yeah.”

“Why keep him?” she asked softly. “If he’s so… hard.”

There it was.

The question everyone wants to ask when you choose a complicated thing.

Why carry weight when you could set it down?

I looked past her into the hallway. The muted carpet. The identical doors. The continue reading …