What ghost story do you love? I was waiting for a Manhattan-bound Q train to pick me up and I thought about this. The platform was hushed, as outdoor platforms often are in between passing trains. I heard a woman at one end, or maybe the other side, humming to herself. I couldn’t tell if the […]
Read more "What’s Your Ghost Story?"“I Knew if She Caressed Me, I Would Die” excerpt from Forgive Me if I’ve Told You This Before The club was in a section of town that appeared to be nothing but warehouses. “I don’t think this is right.” Chloe’s knuckles had been white on the wheel ever since we pulled out of the Singing […]
Read more "“I Knew if She Caressed Me, I Would Die” – Excerpt from Forgive Me if I Told You This Before"MAMMARY OVERLOAD GETTING YOUR GOAT? Miss Madame Says: lie back and think of Balenciaga! Dear Miss Madame, When I told everybody I was moving to France, people who knew better warned me. They said that French people smell bad, chain smoke, drink shots for breakfast, hate Americans, and like their commercials full of […]
Read more "Dear Miss Madame : Boobs on TV"Novelist and PDXXer Karelia Stetz-Waters is having a remarkable year. Her first book, a thriller called The Admirer, was published in December of 2013, and August saw the publication of a second thriller, The Purveyor. A young adult novel, Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before, comes out October 31st, and in January, Grand Central Publishing will release a romance, Something True. […]
Read more "FRIENDS, ACQUAINTANCES, AND PASSING STRANGERS: Karelia Stetz-Waters"after Adrienne Rich fox danced between me and the very still water headed north past geese and white-beaked birds leaving V’s in the water, far from the cocker spaniel five minutes before or lighted towers brightening our left sides as we risky walked beneath darker skies, I felt the opaque absence of fear for her […]
Read more "a standing still"You can’t really dry chanterelles, or so I was told by a guide for the Mushroom Gathering at Breitenbush, a cheerful graying adventurer called Animal. Animal says he dries chanterelles because there are people who want to buy dried chanterelles from him, but the texture is unsatisfactory. It’s better to preserve these choice mushrooms by […]
Read more "Freezing Chanterelles"Today I turned 30. It’s been a good day–I’ve eaten too much, spent too much, and it looks as though now I’m about to say too much. On top of the day’s excess sits a hefty amount of reflection. I spent some time combing through my external hard drive, hell-bent on finding a photo from […]
Read more "In Defense of the Slutty Costume"Trust your gut. Follow your instincts. From self-help books to Albert Einstein, we’re advised to follow our intuitions. But often times in actual situations, we discount it. Imagine sitting in a board meeting, discussing a merger, and someone says, “I have a bad feeling about it. Let’s not do this.” Everyone is going to ask […]
Read more "Making the Case for Trusting Your Intuition"Be careful. Halloween costume selection is as important at twenty or thirty as it was at seven. Plan carefully. Tonight you will be immortalized in a hundred photographs, irretrievably posted by your friends and coworkers. First, aim not to offend. Ask yourself: will this be racist in twenty years? Not everyone who donned a little […]
Read more "Halloween: Find Your Secret Awesomeness"The thick mahogany desk was covered with a thick sheet of plastic. It was as if the doctor wanted to protect the surface of this desk – probably a reproduction, definitely not an antique. The plastic had little white plastic snaps that attached to each corner, like a Tupperware container. I stared at the […]
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