Kate Holderness
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insta: @kateholderness
London 🇬🇧🏳️🌈 Actor. Illustrator.
Stories (8/0)
Where the Boys Go
The curfew starts at nightfall but the town had been packing itself away since late afternoon. “Not takin no chances” Mrs. Court had muttered as she plucked her chubby baby boy from the splash pool on the scorched lawn and bundled him into the house.
By Kate Holderness3 years ago in Fiction
- Top Story - June 2021
Wrapper’s Delight!Top Story - June 2021
When Maria Von Trapp (through the beautiful prism of Julie Andrews) sang about brown paper packages tied up with string in ‘The Sound of Music’, I knew she was my people. I get an obscene amount of pleasure from wrapping - gifts, parcels, cards, I don’t care - if it sits still long enough, I will wrap it.
By Kate Holderness3 years ago in Lifehack
The Winemaker of Deuxreines
I watch them every morning, the line of men walking past my farm. Each man carries a thin box. Some have small boxes they can carry in the palm of their hands, others need two hands to carry theirs and every now and then a donkey will accompany one of the men whose box is too large to carry himself. The donkey men are my favourite - so proud of themselves! Sometimes the men with the tiny boxes lose their nerve at this stage; they look at their own little box, and then to the donkey man’s box and back to theirs. Surmising that all hope is lost, they dash their box on the ground, relinquish their place in line and skulk off the way they came. I used to go out and collect these discarded little parcels. I’d bring them back to my kitchen table and open them as I pushed a hot jam and buttered croissant into my mouth. I always hoped I’d be surprised but I never was, so I stopped gathering them after a while. Always the same. An oil painting of the fields of Deuxreines. Most had cornflower blue skies, some were indigo and moonlit, others in the snow; pretty enough and they’d certainly look well above a fireplace but they would not do for our queen.
By Kate Holderness3 years ago in Humans
- Top Story - March 2021
5 Stranger Towns to Visit After Hawkins...Top Story - March 2021
I know. I KNOW. It’s been over a year since your last visit to Hawkins, Indiana. You miss Dustin. You’re itching to fly down Maple Street on your tricked-out BMX and what you wouldn’t give for a burger from Benny’s. Hawkins felt like home for three seasons so it’s no surprise that we’re experiencing a sort of homesickness for this strange little town. It all comes down to the milieu.
By Kate Holderness3 years ago in Geeks
- Top Story - March 2021
Love & War: The Gay Army who Destroyed the Spartans!🏳️🌈Top Story - March 2021
When Gerard Butler King Leonidas led his 300 warriors into one of the most notorious battles in history, The Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, his army became the ultimate symbol of strength, bravery and peak masculinity. This three-day bloody battle spawned countless iterations; paintings, statues, essays, novels, comic books, movies, memes and the fancy dress costume of choice for buff dudes.
By Kate Holderness3 years ago in FYI
Valentine’s Gay
“Alexa. Play a love song.” “When a maaaaan, loves a womaaaaan....can’t keep his m...” “Alexa. Stop.” It’s 3am on February 13th and I’m scouring the internet for a Valentine’s card to give to my girlfriend of seventeen years. If you’ve never been a gay woman on the hunt for a romantic greetings card to give to another gay woman before, let me talk you through your options: There are vaginas. Everywhere. Some artfully drawn, others...not. Boobs, lots of boobs. The creative use of the word (?) ‘Lez’ is something to behold! Shout out to my personal favourite: “Lez Be An Couple”.
By Kate Holderness3 years ago in Beat
