Australian Love Stories by Cate Kennedy

Author:Cate Kennedy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inkerman & Blunt

The air in my studio hangs in slabs of darkness. The cat’s already lapped up all my Organic Valley chocolate milk. Now he sleeps like a babe on my daybed, white against Arthur’s coat. No one knows we’re home.

I sit in my low, dimpled Victorian chair, watch out into the Hollywood night and try to conjure the coming out stories that my hawkeyed agent wants. I search for motes of a story behind my eyelids. Sitting here at this computer, all I want really is to type in my two favourite words and get swept up in the bowels of the cyber burrow, move back to Bareback City. Inebriate my spirit.

Why can’t I just hold my breath, or breathe more easily, wait for the vein of my voice? Why can’t I be in love? Arthur worships me, invests in me for God’s sake. He holds me close and gives me space, he found that scary little Del Mar agent in the first place.

I thought writing would be as advertised—like sitting up with the dying, a room you enter with dread and hold the patient’s hand. Didn’t realize I’d have to sit up with myself. Of course, Marta advised sandalwood candles and bubble baths, a page a day, a story at a time, but what does she know about that shit. Rhona’s got slain freeway dogs, their bloody-haunch stains on a ribbed Rambler seat.

The cat yawns at me as I take my yellow pencil and my blank brown Telemundo notebook.

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