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    The Properties of Gold

    written by Kristen Koester-Smith

    As a health tonic,

    My grandfather ate

    Gold.

    Atomic Number:

    AU,

    Is what he said to my her,

    As she walked by in her server’s cocktail dress.

    Metallic,

    Like the sheen of his slick black hair and her long red nails.

    Density:

    19.3 g per cubic centimeter at celsius degree

    20,

    Is how old she was when they met.

    Vanderwaals radius:

    .

    1

    Year later,

    44,

    He’d be. And dead.

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    Abby

    by Kristen Koester-Smith September 20, 2017

    I feel her bones in my bones. She’s always been there. I was born with the knowing. Her story has…

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    The Eternal Summer Itch

    by Kristen Koester-Smith February 8, 2016

    This piece originally appeared in Afterglobe Vol 2. The eternal summer of living on the equator. The light dawning and fading at…

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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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