Kate Westphal
Bio
I was put on this Earth to write books and love cats.
Stories (9/0)
Melody
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. It was an insignificant, unsightly cabin; listing haphazardly to the left with rotted frames and a moss-smothered rooftop, it hunched in the tenebrous overgrowth, silent and stoic. Draped in long tendrils of curling ivy, its moldering face stared out into a cluttered forest, waiting for an unfortunate hiker to stare back.
By Kate Westphal2 years ago in Fiction
All the Wonders We Keep
My father once said that our planet was a tiny miracle amidst an infinite catastrophe. Of course, at the ripe age of nine the words hadn’t been meant for me- they’d been meant for the science buffs who listened to his podcast, but for the longest time after eavesdropping I couldn’t get them out of my head. I’d lie awake at night contemplating their validity; what made Earth a miracle and could the universe possibly stretch on and on forever?
By Kate Westphal2 years ago in Fiction
The View from Above
INFLUENCE She was destined for greatness and had been her entire life. She'd been prepped and primed by caregivers from the moment of her Arrival while her distrait parents hurried from home-to-office-and-back-home-again, their faces perpetually engulfed in the three-dimensional images of their Mini-Holos.
By Kate Westphal3 years ago in Fiction