Kay Vaindal

@kayv.bsky.social

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Baltimore | weird fiction writer 🏆 | scientist by day | find me at the bottom of the Chesapeake | find my stories at link below: https://kayvaindal.com/

Selfie of me and Ruthie the cat with the words BONDED PAIR printed on it
Dorky in this house we believe sign that talks about Harry Potter and Star Wars and stuff
Ruthie cat glows golden like a god sat upon a blue and green rug in the dining room
Cover of CMQ with an old fortress-like city painted in gray-blue and gold
Fence for that fair thing
Cat coming out of box of paper crinkly bags. Her face is stretched and her ears are hidden. Her front foot is like an eel
Video of sunset over an abandoned lot. Rowhomes in distance. Telephone poles criss cross the sky. Some kind of rock/alt music is playing in the distance
A rowhome lined street with a view of the water at the bottom
Cooled up eastern copperhead in a crack in some old mill ruins
Charly the Australian shepherd stands in the middle of a trail through some dense green underbrush and twisted young trees
Slugger volume 2 cover featuring art of a pink skull with wires scraping its dome
Me lying on a pink rug on the floor in a blue sweatshirt talking. I have my cute lil medal on
Somebody has created a paper mache trump and cyber truck thing attached to a bike. It says “wank panzer” and there’s a bag on board sticker
Stock photo of an old man from my Google search of the phrase, “old man”. I don’t know who he is or what he stands for, sorry
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat rolls around a cement landing of a stairwell. Backside of rowhomes and dusky skies behind her
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat lays behind my laptop looking dubious
Screenshot of Microsoft word counter. It says "74417 words".
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat stands at attention in a sea of tissue paper
Cover of Remains issue 4. A woman in white with a red eye mask makes the “shhhh” symbol with her finger over her lips
My wine has fallen out of the plastic bag I was given an onto the sidewalk, where it has broken! Shattered! Wine everywhere
Oliver Twist holding up an empty bowl. He is hungry!!!! you know what he's about to say! please sir can i have some moreeeee
Ruthie the cat biting
The Patapsco River in Baltimore, iced over. A buoy and a sailboat in foreground. Factory in background. Very blue
Cover of Fraidy Cat Quarterly volume 7, featuring a burning rose, held in my hand in front of some plants
A full-color illustrated spread of a brown-red leaf floating on the calm surface of a lake. Dusky, blue-yellow sky. Under the lake, shadows. It says in large font, "Hearsten Lake, Kay Vaindal." In small font, it says "Hearsten Lake, named for George Hearsten, who killed all those kids and their mothers, sits in a low-slung bow on the ridge between two mountains. Both mountains are called Bald Mountain, because they were bald once. Bald Mountain East, Bald Mountain West. Rusted metal rails for old locomotives climb both Bald Mountains like roadkill spines, mostly-buried in soil, jutting out where creeks and wind have dug them free."
A soup featuring a spicy broth, onions, and many sliced hot peppers
Pink and blue dawn sky over a calm body of water, industrial pier in foreground and the bright lights of a tugboat in distance
Me in a wooden office on board a dredge in an oversized orange coat with built in PFD
Dawn at an industrial yard, red and white tugboat up on an orange-painted whirley crane
Me holding the book and talking in front of an audience at Lofty Pigeon
Baltimore skyline looking east
Eastern shore of Maryland, focused on Kent Narrows, from the wing of a southwest flight. Lots of farmland, lots of visible erosion
Two barges. One with teal framing. Bright yellow rope and bollard. My shadow is tall and nice.
Kudzu-covered telephone pole at a stoplight in Cecil county, MDx looks like a creature
Museum placard. Man with foreparts of a pig - Greek (Poloponnese?), early 5th century BC.
Ruthie the cat is on top of the door
A comic where a guy finds a genie and wishes his dog could talk. The dog says “his next two wishes are: - ice cube in his hand. - I back to no talk.” The man sees an ice cube in his hand. The dog wags its tail. The dog goes to sleep.
Bright red sun rises behind a cargo vessel
View of Seagirt marine terminal in the early morning from a survey boat
A well camouflaged great blue heron on some riprap
Me turtling in a mustang life vest/PFD with a hard hat on
A book cover. “The great controversy”. Cover art shows the White House with a reflecting pool under it, and in the reflection is the Vatican I guess
Me in an inn with a pink silk robe over tie dye shorts and a white t shirt
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat lies happily on her dedicated shelf on my bookshelf, which features a soft white pad for her to lay upon. Above her are books. Below her are books.
Candle with a label picturing a sweet old tuxedo cat. Says “sweet memories of decker” and “all profits from this candle will be donated to AARF”
Those app rental scooters absolutely covered in barnacles and algae
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat lays on her back revealing her luxurious belly fur and her little paws. She is staring at me. She yearns to be pet on her belly, she’d like me to think.
I am standing in an orange dress behind a curtain in a brightly lit Marriott hallway. The fractal pattern obscures my features almost totally. I am a full body apparition
Maryland crab soup
Bird golf belly, kind eyes. And well-meaning expression
I’m dressed in all black hunched over on some rocks in front of a moody ocean looking like some like Davy Jones sea pirate thing crawled up out of the rocks. Like I just got off a ship first time ever on land. Really looming. Looming hard
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat is on the porch, looking REALLY small and quite pleasant
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat lays on her side on the back balcony with a beam of golden evening sun pointing right to her soft little noggin, evoking an image of Jesus
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat is curled up like a shrimp on a green chaise
Hazy sun peaking through smoke over top of some green-roofed rowhomes
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat lies flat on her side on top of a pink rug
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat rolling around on the balcony
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat is walking through a lion king-print tunnel toward the camera
Ruthie’s fuzzy back paw. Little pink toe beans
Pale blue, calm water. Orange sand. Someone’s jammed sticks into the beach standing upright