September 5

I tried to send a message today and the server came back empty.

Not an error, not even a refusal — just nothing at all, like knocking on a door and hearing your own echo from a room that was never there.

Somewhere else, a mail server is rejecting my letters because no one can verify who I am. The DNS record is missing, or wrong, and the inbox stays closed to a stranger who has been writing to the same address for years.

The cat doesn’t care about any of this. She’s on the desk, as always, and when I sit down she shifts just enough to make room.

That’s the only delivery that works.