An Orange Cat with a Very Strange Way of Sitting

An Orange Cat with a Very Strange Way of Sitting The chair is a black mesh model from Staples, forty-nine dollars on clearance. He has wedged himself between the seat and the window frame because he thinks this is how the latch works. Dad, he said. I looked up from the laptop. The glass is cold, he said. It’s just glass, I told him. He stared at his own reflection in the dark pane for a long time.

There is a small grey toy mouse under the wheel base that he brought out here earlier. He decided it was not heavy enough to hold the window open. He stood up on the carpet and walked toward the door.