Katherine Emsley

Battle Cries and Rose Petal Lies

Battle Cries and Rose Petal Lies

The news used to erupt at every mention of sexual assault. Now? It’s background noise, a dull ache in a world choked with violence against women. I stand in that wreckage, a twice-broken survivor in a country where rape is a national anthem. They ask why I’m single,...

Butterflies, fast fashion, and frappapappamochasomethingcino’s.

Butterflies, fast fashion, and frappapappamochasomethingcino’s.

Because that is the beauty of fiction. Reality sucks! Reality tastes like the socks your boyfriend wore all weak to the gym, then wore that morning on a 30km cycle with his buddies where they stopped to swim in a dam then cycled another 30km back, stopping along the way to take a dump on the side of the road and then wiping his ass with the socks.

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14 December 2022

I am tired, so crushingly tired. Moving house is stressful enough, but moving towns that have different municipalities, different traffic departments, different rules needing different licenses, and different paperwork, is a whole new level of stress. But by far, the...

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7 December 2022

7 December 2022

As I came around a bend I was greeted by a troupe of baboons sitting in the road. There must’ve been about 8 adults and 4 or 5 babies of varying ages running around, playing with each other.

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