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    Abby

    written by Kristen Koester-Smith

    I feel her bones in my bones. She’s always been there. I was born with the knowing. Her story has always been on my lips, her thoughts have always been in my head, her mistakes have always been my perdition. I’ve felt her presence in my body but her absence from my life. Dead two years and two days before I was born; she was 52. Inside but not here. Grandma: Abby. The center of my being, like she is in the center of my name. Middle name: Abby. When they tell me I’m so much like her, I know already. I know because I’ve grown into her, not on purpose.

    I couldn’t help it.

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    September 20, 2017 0 comment
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    The Orphan Cleopatra

    by Kristen Koester-Smith November 15, 2014

    by Kristen Abate (Originally published in Typehouse Magazine issue 3) Millie missed the last month of second grade because her mother had…

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    Lost in Space

    by Kristen Koester-Smith November 15, 2014

    by Kristen Abate (Originally published in Sand Hill Review 2014) Remember the night we got lost in space? That was the…

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    Author’s tour

    by Kristen Koester-Smith April 7, 2014

    Thanks to Jan Sikes for nominating me for this author’s tour and also for helping me edit my short story…

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Hi, I'm Kristen

I write stories, essays, and poems. Sometimes I perform. Sometimes I have conversations with interesting people. I share what I learn because I believe there's no healing in hiding, our lesson's are not our own, and we are all one.

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