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Katerina Petrou
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- Top Story - June 2024
What Makes A Cook?Top Story - June 2024
Despite sipping on a retired pornstar, I felt absolutely drunk. Like two giddy school girls, my mother and I ate in silence. While, every so often, looking up from our spoons to exchange a smile and a light laugh. Underneath the golden chandeliers of Savoy Grill glistened a rich, dark caramel, poured atop the apple tart tatin. A truly euphoric experience, it was.
By Katerina Petrou9 days ago in Feast
Falling
Oblivious laughs echo through the humid city air. Flashing lights and car horns. Everything with a slight delay. All edges blurred and softened. Morals, fading. Tripping out of the bar, he links my arm with his. Be careful, I say. If you keep doing things like this, I may just fall in love with you. Stomping along saliva-stained pavement, I thoughtlessly ramble about something and he pretends to follow. Slowly unwinding my arm from his, he laces his fingertips along mine. Losing control of whatever train my thoughts were on, my heart and I stop for a second and turn our gaze to him. I cannot control it. It is too late. I am falling. Falling. Falling. Fall-
By Katerina Petrou13 days ago in Fiction
My Top 10 Books of 2024 So Far
As the year of 2024 progresses, there are books that trail through my thoughts each day. Although I am proud to admit I have absorbed a total of 59 books so far, both print and audio, the last couple weeks of May revealed to me that my purpose for reading had been distorted. It became a challenge. A task. A chore. At one time, reading provided sense to the world I lived in, or an escape from it when it became too much to bear. Now, I will take time to soak in the words and appreciate each of them. Below are the books I read this year that I hold in my soul with the highest regard.
By Katerina Petrou15 days ago in BookClub
- Top Story - May 2024
Crossing Something Off My Bucket List
I do not attend many concerts - despite my adoration for them. Big or small. However, I have been wanting to watch Arctic Monkeys perform live for probably a decade now. Although the financial aspect of accomplishing this was not shy at all, I feel there are some life experiences worth the expense.
By Katerina Petrou20 days ago in Beat
The Longing and Avoidance of Intimacy
Once we said our goodbyes after a night that continues to roll through the screen in my mind, I sat on the train with an unknown feeling. It was almost as if I had left him with a part of myself that was now missing. The sudden absence of his presence felt devastating. I was lost and craved for him to find me, again. After processing this experience, I feared the intense attachment that I grew to a man, who I barely knew, was unhealthy. My concerns led me to purchase a book that would allow me to become educated on why I felt this way about him - and how I could prevent myself from feeling this again.
By Katerina Petrou23 days ago in Humans
An Extraordinary Journey
'All I want to do is eat good food and look at pretty buildings.' This is what I told my friend as we discussed our potential trip to Rome. As the skies turned more grey and the days became shorter, we wanted a chance to catch the sun on our faces for another moment. Within a week of my mentioning of the possibility, we video-called each other and booked it. We were going to Rome.
By Katerina Petrou23 days ago in Wander