Kathryn Susanne Sterling
Bio
Kathryn Susanne Sterling is the author of Edith, Awake: Part One of The Name Series. Her second novel, The Anomaly, will be released in 2021. She lives in Texas with her husband, John, three assassin cats, and one overly emotional dog.
Stories (8/0)
Words
Words. One carefully constructed sentence can change someone’s mind, save a life, end a war, make a statement, or start a revolution. A word can also tear a person’s life apart, or kill the imagination, or punch an unfillable hole in someone’s self-esteem. Words create universes. We can't take words back, regardless of how they make us or others feel. Words transport us, bind us, and set us free. What is a character, but a string of well-placed adjectives, describing a face, a mind, a temperament, a purpose, and a motivation? Words influence, distract, and challenge us to read, learn, and evolve.
By Kathryn Susanne Sterling3 years ago in Journal
You & I
I gave Alice the locket on her birthday, and when she died, I took it back. She'd had it less than a day when the first attack happened. By the time we knew what was happening, two weeks had passed, and she was dead. The heart-shaped locket was the only thing I had left of her, and the picture inside of it was my own. I had no images of Alice; I was starting to forget her face. Her memory was fading with all the rest. Fast food, PTA meetings, convenience stores, cafe lattes, and fresh vegetables- all of these things and Alice were all relics of the past.
By Kathryn Susanne Sterling3 years ago in Fiction
There Is No Box
Let’s talk about boxes, particularly ones that do not exist. Somewhere in the collective consciousness of the power-player creatives of theatre, a box of stereotypical conventionality exists. A creative that breaks away from this conventionality is thinking “outside of the box.” But if one must think outside of the box to establish any semblance of creative individualism, why are we allowing the confining box to decide our choices for us in the first place?
By Kathryn Susanne Sterling3 years ago in Education
The Lamentably Short Life of Kathryn Susanne West
The year was 1985. I remember sitting in the empty and dry bathtub, hugging my knees, and thinking my time was up. I was going to die. I was bleeding internally. It was only a matter of time. I had accomplished little in my short life. Now I probably had only hours to reconcile the meaning of my time on Earth, and hope that I would make it into heaven.
By Kathryn Susanne Sterling3 years ago in Viva
Barnabas Collins & The 1,225 Episode Crush
I’m secretly in love with a fictitious 1960s Soap Opera vampire. His name is Barnabas Collins. Don’t tell anybody. Many, if not most of us, have had starter marriages. They’re the unintentional mistakes we make so we can understand what love is. I wasn’t ready for marriage the first time around. I dated fast and said yes without thinking. A year later, when I was healing from my only divorce and in the middle of a great depression, I read an article about an old 1960’s soap opera called Dark Shadows. Starter marriages are fodder for soap operas. And newly divorced depressed women are the perfect fans of soap operas. I needed someone to take my mind off of things, and that someone ended up being Jonathan Frid’s deliciously scene-stealing Barnabas Collins.
By Kathryn Susanne Sterling3 years ago in Geeks
The Abomination Tree
*This is a transcript of several recordings made on January 13th, 2021. [3:11 PM] I’m recording this just in case. I’m Richard Ware. I'm seventy-nine years old. I live alone with my dog in a north-east suburb outside of Austin, Texas. It’s January 13th, 2021.
By Kathryn Susanne Sterling3 years ago in Horror
