Karen G Berry

Paint Chips She ran her finger around the margin where there was only white, no terra cotta or paprika or burnt umber or ginger spice. “I like white.” Her voice was so soft that he almost couldn’t hear her.&nb…

I have a wee flash piece up this morning, one of a few things that are circling out there, waiting for publication. It's a tiny moment and I am as surprised by the kind comments as anything else.

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Into the Woods a post about forests and words on I Am Not A Pie woods and forests and what they have to do with writing

Thoughts on trees, solitude, and writing in a room of one's own.

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Fall 2025 Issue 3 of The Gilded Weathervane — FarmGirl Press Containing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, and photography this issue celebrates all that rural fall has to offer.

I have two poems in here! And, I am writing again.
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Wet Rain  - Thin Skin Her eyes move from table to table, person to person. He’d somehow forgotten this in the last six months. He’d forgotten her restless eyes tracking whoever walked by, leaving the impression that he was...

I have a short story up! "Wet Rain" is in the newest issue of Thin Skin. Enjoy.

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Why You Should Still Build Your Raft of Art in the Sea of Slop A little cri du coeur about working on your work and avoiding all the noise

Such a great post:
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just been camping for the first time in my life and i have some valuable camping advice: take everything with you. Everything in your house. Take your whole house with you and live in it. Live inside your house, at home. Stay at home, living in your house with everything in your house.

Three was a disappointing season for me. One and Two are fantastic.

Good one from Andy Borowitz.

At 1:34 AM Trump called for DOJ to investigate Kamala Harris, Beyoncé, Springsteen, Oprah and others for crimes, he then made another deranged post about it at 9:11 AM, and the lead story of the day on MSNBC and CNN continues to be Joe Biden in 2023.

Photo of soup with vegetables. Caption: you started water-based cooking and now your skin is clear and your stomach healed

They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

I love getting the New York Times "Breaking News" updates. I just wish the news wouldn't break ME so often.

I'm "go to the mailbox to read rejection letters" old. Now I've transferred all that existential angst to my email inbox.

Last week, I stopped a pair of crows from killing a bunny kit. In retaliation, they just got into my garbage. Tit for tat. I deprived them of one meal, so they helped themselves to another.

Now that I'm retired, I get most of my steps in by watering houseplants.

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,

Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.

~ All of Us

Maybe he was excited by a story that made him feel like a viable option for 19 year old women.

Isn't that the truth. Depressing, awful truth.

I have been spared a review!

There's something hilarious about those "You're on a roll! Let's level up!" emails from @linkedin.com arriving six weeks before I retire...

thank you!

Fully Grown — HerStry While my oldest daughter was growing up we attended Little People of America functions, though only one person in our family was short. We went to city and regional gatherings in Portland and Seattle,...

Very proud that "Fully Grown" has found a place at Herstry. It's about motherhood, dwarfism, and how we grow.
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Ink Nest Poetry - A Literary Magazine|Paperback

Correction! I have a flash fiction piece called "Monument" in this issue of Inknest! And Katrina Gould has a review! The RealDoll haiku are coming in The Offing.

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I learned about autism (and its now included "Asperger's") in 2002. Remembering my school years felt like dominoes falling; all those stubborn, socially inept kids, mostly boys, who clearly had autism. You're right. We simply have a name for it now, but it has always been with us.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

The Ekphrastic Review the ekphrastic review: visual art and writing, ekphrastic poetry, ekphrastic flash fiction, ekphrastic prose, ekphrastic essays, writing and literature responding to visual art

Today (and probably today only), my poem "A Professional Beauty" pops up first at The Ekphrastic Review! www.ekphrastic.net

Man that sweet spot between properly caffeinated and literally vibrating with impending catastrophe seems like it gets a little smaller every day

Those shingles shots are BEARS. Rest.

“The Invisible Stenographer Listens to the Dead” by Kathleen A. Wakefield The Invisible Stenographer is a persona that found me a few years ago. Some people say poetry can’t change a life, but I beg to differ. She (the Gregg shorthand gal) kept me going at a time when my…

Where are the others, those contented
with how they are known now …

—Kathleen A. Wakefield

Rose-Tu’s calf has a name! Meet Tula-Tu 💕

Eggs seem not to be cheaper but they are at least harder to get