Katherine's Creative Writing

And I tell her how I brought him there, how we sat in the green paint-chipped chairs around the warped wooden table while I wore one of Didi’s cashmere V-neck sweaters–maroon– and on the table was that same paper bag of mini blueberry muffins that Didi picked up from Dinah Lingos that morning, and the…

Thumb-sized birthday cake on those white plastic tables borrowed from Domino’s Pizza boxes. A feline does laundry in a burgundy apron, a mother mouse nurses her baby bunny. 15 years enclosed behind the cupboard, life as it was left. Left for new homeowners of the only white house on P Street, its white light streaming…

Our favorite fireworks were the weeping willows, gold glitter bending like branches in the sky,  white skeletons of spider trails against that blue hue reserved for 9 pm, the green that crackled as we sat lame-limbed on beach towels, their eclectic patterns  swallowed by the dark.  July, peak of summer’s flame, dwindled thereafter. From beer…

Our pantry had an empty shelf, one with tea bags and expired Quaker Oats, Panda Puffs and organic Oreos below it, and, in rotation, Tessa’s vegan staples– chia seeds, hemp seeds, flax seeds, bird food. Camilla introduced breaded chicken on Sunday evenings and holding hands during grace.  I don’t remember meals with Megan save for…

Eclipse glasses, $15, protect your eyes!  Eclipse glasses, $10, don’t go blind! We swim through the swell of Union Square, a sea of tents sells challah and tulips and lavender trinkets. Like kids in an Imax 3-D theatre we place the rectangle glasses on our eyes, the lenses like film negatives. Is it happening yet? …