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Steve McManus

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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 04/09/2026
Somebody's rubbing it in
Two Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, one with a snazzy cone on his head
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 28/08/2026
#lunareclipse underway from LA SFV
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 27/08/2026
#squirrelsploot #heatwave #losangeles
A squirrel cooling down in the LA heatwave by splooting his little squirrel belly on bricks
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 07/08/2026
survived an attempted carjacking today perpetrator fled the scene, as did I
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 28/07/2026
well, I WAS working . . . #amediting #amwriting #amtakingabreakIguess
a white cat sabotaging critical minutes of productivity by lying on my damn pages
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 23/07/2026
what is this constellation of fur
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 13/07/2026
leaving it to the cat to hold things down for me
small white cat rests a paw on a stressed-out writer's desk as if it doesn't have a care in the damn world
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 30/06/2026
I suspect she knows more Spanish than I do
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 30/03/2026
First draft of new MS done at 131k words and 409 pages. Time for the mighty red pen to mercilessly trim the bejeezus out of it down to its bikini bod. #amwriting #amediting
A red pen sits coyly atop a three neat stacks of a spanking new manuscript that are veritably bursting out of their spandex
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 27/03/2026
#stealthmode
smol white paws with smol black beans of a smol white cat partially sticking out of a tunnel
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 16/03/2026
may we all have dreams as happy as this guy's
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 28/02/2026
neighborhood watch hopeful something's gonna happen soon
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 23/02/2026
this old girl cleans up well after a day at the groomers
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 19/02/2026
Rumor has it this is my cat. Not sure which end is which or what
mound of indistinguishable gray fur atop a nightstand that apparently is my cat
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 13/02/2026
Very bad phone photo of a very beautiful LA sunset
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 11/02/2026
these goofballs
Two dogs and a cat chillin together on a sofa
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 05/02/2026
Morning mood
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 25/12/2025
Pretty as a picture. Merry Christmas everybody!
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 18/12/2025
Naked as a jay bird
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 26/11/2025
feline gentrification. also, she's a bully.
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 19/11/2025
self portrait
A small white cat reflected in an iPad
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 23/10/2025
well ain't this a meeting of the minds
one cat and two dogs huddled together, plotting something nefarious no doubt, since the cat's calling the shots
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 19/09/2025
#stealthmode
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 03/09/2025
The grosso cat making sure the Doc Martens don’t escape
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 31/08/2025
the don draper of small white cat paws
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 22/07/2025
hands 'n beans
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 05/07/2025
Nobody does fireworks like LA And nobody does nervous panting through it like my good boy
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 04/07/2025
Apparently pillows and cushions can just be *too* comfortable sometimes
A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel resting its wee brown and white head against a low bookshelf instead of something comfortable, giving it a weary snaggletoothed look
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 04/07/2025
Alien portal over LA
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 17/06/2025
Tunnel vision
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 02/06/2025
breakfast *in* bed or *from* bed? #efficiency
a small white cat sitting in a green salad bowl for some reason, and reaching to a conveniently-placed food bowl nearby
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 16/05/2025
this guy is a loud-mouth asshole
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 10/05/2025
Some might see a cat on the floor Others, a near shapeless pile of fur to trip over in the night
A huge gray cat on the floor beside a bed, like a great big booby trap
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 09/05/2025
Erstwhile writing companion pretending there's something more interesting to look at than the latest revision
Small white cat with back to the camera offering no support at all
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 29/04/2025
Two dogs One blep
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 18/04/2025
I have a hard time declining dawg's subtle indicators it's play time
A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel in full blep near the neon wiffle ball rolled at me to tell me it's time to play, dammit
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 14/04/2025
smol cat, I feel you
primal roar of existential fear and dread, or mighty yawn of shoebox contentment?
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 08/04/2025
#stealthmode
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 03/04/2025
#stealthmode
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 31/03/2025
what's she got to be so grumpy about I ask you
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 27/03/2025
If only I were ambidextrous, she could keep the hand, but alas…
white cat seizes author’s dominant hand in a brazen coup of some kind
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 21/03/2025
I see my allotted space off to the side there
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 18/03/2025
Location shot, floorplan, cat using both as an unlikely cushion #amwriting
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 18/03/2025
more fully realized as details became available, including position of body and phone
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 16/03/2025
illustrating the physics concept of displacement
cat in a puffy former dog bed, whilst sad dog lies morosely nearby
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 15/03/2025
insurmountable bed-making impediment
Super-size cat half-dangling off the bed I'd intended to make, but now scratch off the list entirely out of principal alone
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 15/03/2025
sometimes visual aids are necessary to write fiction can't have characters roaming through structures like Casper the inconsistent ghost #amwriting
crude drawing done by a child or perhaps someone with a head injury, indicating a fictional 2-bedroom apartment where something bad has happened
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 09/03/2025
Writer’s workshop this morning but these guys aren’t very inspired
Two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels staring blankly in the general direction of their lord and master
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 19/02/2025
don’t stand so close to me
a fake skunk menacing a real white cat’s peace and loaf
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Steve McManus @stevemcmanus.com · 15/02/2025
Professor Jowls has arrived
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