The town is a throwback sort of town--the kind that experienced renaissance for about twenty years after World War II and then slowly began sporting vacant and fading storefronts like gaps in an aging man’s teeth. Its claim to fame is suffrage and some fictional movie that the current generation finds a symptom more than … Continue reading A Throwback Sort of Town
Author: Katie Baker
Review: Race and Culture
Race and Culture:: Thomas Sowell 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Recommend to those who seek to understand and broaden their mind, and to those interested in the hard topic of how culture informs our world views. 📖 It became quickly apparent to me that this book was not just a survey on race and culture but also a survey … Continue reading Review: Race and Culture
There is Hope in This
Seneca Lake. Motorcycle ride. Close my eyes and let the roar of the wind buffet away the fears, the tears, and the fright of the future. I uncurl my fingers and open them, palm wide, into the flow of the air as it rushes past. I let it untangle all of the strands I’ve been … Continue reading There is Hope in This
Happily Here and Now
If I could write you a love story, I would write of far away woods tucked into mountain folds and of twisting roads under autumn leaves. Brooks that babble down rocky ravines. And somewhere above the valley floor, a little cabin that is ours. I would wash away the worries and the grime, the cares … Continue reading Happily Here and Now
Cultural Education
A teacher sits at the entrance of the school. Before her stands a table on which a book lays open. Behind her, the facade of the building frowns down from dull windows, reflecting a dull sky. The door to the school is shut and black--a heavy steel set of doors on which no glimmer of … Continue reading Cultural Education
Prompt: The Farthest You’ve Been From Home
Standing at the top of the mountain pass, the crags of the summit hang above us. The parking area is scooped out from the side of the mountain, and a small hut with restrooms and concession counter sits back between the gray folds of a sheer cliff. I am only seven. I have a bladder … Continue reading Prompt: The Farthest You’ve Been From Home
The Overwhelming Moment of Now
I cannot shut off the voices.
Martin and the Pine-Pungent Lair
“Martin, could you take this book to your grandmother, please? She’s asked me for it five times, and I’ve just been too busy to get over there.” Martin’s mother waggled the book at him from over the counter top, nose height. He glared at it cross-eyed. The semi-gloss cover sported a rather fuzzy looking ham … Continue reading Martin and the Pine-Pungent Lair
Scene from Eden & Ingrid: Party Preparations
The McKays gave a party every year at the beginning and end of summer, along with other lesser festivities book-ended between. At the beginning and ending parties the Who’s Who of society appeared, making the nobility of Stillbank look like unbecoming peons. A week of preparations went into both parties, but there was a fervor about the season opener that could not be paralleled.
Scene from Eden & Ingrid: Arrival
Some rumors say he came on the 3:15 from New Orleans the very afternoon of the McKay party, and that he had nothing in his pockets save a wallet containing a few dollars and his identification. Most people agree that he was running from something and had spent his last money on the train. Yet try as anyone might, beyond Atlanta his antecedents could not be traced.
Seeking Prose 