Ten Thousand Monkeys

Denis Taillefer

Denis Taillefer resides in Ontario, Canada, where he is an IT professional by day, and amateur goof by night. And every night, Denis dreams of quitting his day job. His work can be found in a few print and electronic magazines.

ON A SOLITARY AFTERNOON
It is Sunday, and I'm alone with my two cats. I'm sitting upstairs at my computer, listening to soft jazz. Between sleek, bass guitar riffs, I hear the chiming of a bell from a cat's collar as it jumps through the storm door's opened window and trots to its food bowl. Then I hear it rush back outside.

Funny. That's one of the reasons Nicole and I split up. I bet the cats received more attention than I did. I'd always whine about it, but she insisted we let them in and out at their leisure, rain or shine. The air conditioner could have been pumping on a blistering summer day, or the furnace blasting heat in the dead of winter, but the outside door always remained opened for the cats. And now I'm doing the same. I wonder what else I'd like to take back, given another chance with Nicole. >>>

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