Zay Ketcham
Bio
Former clinical marriage and family therapist turned Life and Empowerment Coach. I have only recently come out of a dark phase of writer's block and explore many existential, spiritual, and humanistic themes in my writing.
Stories (101/0)
The Camus Show
It’s the fall of 2008 sometime during my first semester as a college freshman. I’m working full time, only attending a few classes, biology, English literature, and intro to philosophy. My friend and I have decided to drive down to San Diego to visit its world famous marine park. I am not native to Southern California but I am told that visiting this park is a must. It has always been particularly famous for its main attraction “The Camus Show.” Camus is the most famous killer whale in the world. There were stories running around that some people could hear him speak. This, of course, no doubt started with parents telling such things to their children in order to garner more excitement and anticipation over their family outing. Interestingly, a middle-aged woman had gone into some sort of psychosis claiming she could hear the whale speak to her and that he needed to be freed back into the ocean. Probably a softhearted hippie who tripped a little too hard on acid. I suppose anything as surreal as an orca doing live tricks is enough for anyone to fill in the gaps of their imagination. Everyone needs a cause to get behind these days.
By Zay Ketchamabout a year ago in Fiction
The Lonely Rat
Faint sounds reach me in my sleep. Louder and louder they become as light begins to break through to me. I wished this would have been my final sleep. I dreamt again of an open place, playing with others like me. Golden sticks all around me. But once again, I wake. I wake to this little grey box I have been put in. I wonder what they will do to me today.
By Zay Ketchamabout a year ago in Fiction
Love Scars
Tattoo bled in wood A heart, carved in a tree Once, a lover's mark
By Zay Ketchamabout a year ago in Poets
Time's Nihilism
Life be, or be not In this catatonic blaze Time's nihilism
By Zay Ketchamabout a year ago in Poets
