Katherine J. Zumpano
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Stories (43/0)
The Beginner's Guide to Free Speech
If you’ve been following the news lately, you probably already know that Donald Trump has been permanently suspended from Twitter. On January 8, 2021, the social media company posted the following statement to their blog:
By Katherine J. Zumpano3 years ago in The Swamp
Quarantine Snapshots: My Year in Photos
I think it’s pretty obvious that this year was nothing like I’d anticipated. I had all these plans — people I was going to see, places I was going to go — that never came to fruition. I was unable to see my family or friends for much of the year, instead relying on iMessage and FaceTime to keep us connected. I started my final year of college online, desperately wishing I could wait in a long line for campus coffee or get lost in Miller Hall one more time. I spent August in bed, recovering from a surgery I never thought I’d need.
By Katherine J. Zumpano3 years ago in Humans
Dear America
Dear America, I sit to write this, and I don’t know what to say. I am not one to struggle with words—they are always there, always ready in the back of my mind and tip of my tongue, but it’s hard to write this. It’s hard to express my disappointment when I cannot make you feel the ache in my heart. All I have are words, and you so often don’t listen.
By Katherine J. Zumpano4 years ago in The Swamp
The Starlight Diner
Jen didn’t believe in The Starlight’s ghost. It didn’t make sense, she thought, for an unassuming, small-town diner to have a resident spirit. In the week she had worked there, she hadn’t witnessed any of the activity her coworkers claimed to experience regularly—doors slamming shut, lights flickering, disembodied voices. She thought the staff was playing games, that it was some hazing ritual to trick new servers into thinking the diner was haunted. Or maybe, she thought, the reason she hadn’t witnessed any paranormal phenomena was because she, unlike her coworkers, didn’t believe in ghosts. She never had.
By Katherine J. Zumpano4 years ago in Horror
How to Get Brunch at Calico Cupboard
1. Don’t be ashamed—admit it, say, “I am a brunch girl.” You read some article that painted brunch in a harsh, sunny-side up light, one that made it sound shameful to be a millennial woman who enjoys brunch, and now you feel a tinge of self-consciousness each time you walk into the cozy café. Push those thoughts aside and repeat: “I am a brunch girl.”
By Katherine J. Zumpano4 years ago in Feast