and her stories
School for all of UGA started today, but its already the third day of class at the vet school! With studying to do it feels like I've been in class for a week already. Break went by too fast! It was such a great break though, and here are some of the highlights! 1. Decorating… Continue reading Throwback Thursday
First of all, I'd like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas from me and my peeps to you and yours! Secondly, I'll tell you a bit about my first year of vet school, which I can hardly believe is half over! Up until the last anatomy test I'd still look around the lab… Continue reading Merry Christmas & First Year Update
Hello all! School has swept me away, laughing at any attempt to write something of length or substance. However, one of my classes is a poetry workshop class, which has exposed me to much more poetry and challenged my writing in many ways. Most of what I've written has been an exercise, just playing around… Continue reading You Look Stunning in Yellow
I have two list poems for you all today. I wrote these while sitting on a large wooden chair set up by the side of a small farmers' market. The town of Athens is very inspiring since there is so much going on and many fascinating people. I sat and ate my coconut icecream, watching… Continue reading List Poems
I'm sticking to the alliteration theme I started last week so I'll share this memory with you guys in this creative nonfiction piece : ) This story is based on personal experience at a horse show I rode in and I took creative liberties to create the characters and conversations. Riding Chance by Kate Buckley Fog was… Continue reading Memoire Monday
This story started out as a challenge to write a fiction piece without dialogue. As I got into the story, however, I found that I really wanted to use verbal communication in a few instances. I settled for using words (haha, words, of course I used words. Okay, what I meant was, I used a… Continue reading Delete Dialogue Day
Happy New Year’s to everyone! Today I’d like to share with you a little more about myself and I have another poem for you at the end. I am a college student, who in addition to dreaming of becoming an author one day, has dreamt of becoming a veterinarian. Honestly, I can’t remember when becoming… Continue reading Meet Kwirky Kate & A Poem
“What do you want for Christmas?” she whispers, her white blonde hair tickling my face as she leans in. “I want a pony.” She gasps. “Me too! Can we get a pony together? And name it Sparkles?” “Or, we get two ponies, then we can ride together.” “Oooo, Sparkles and Sprinkles.” “Sure.” I hug her… Continue reading Madeleine’s Christmas
I have loved the artist Halsey since I heard her song "Colors". Since then one of my favorite songs by her has been "Strange Love" and one line that stands out to me is "They wrote a story in the fog on the windows". I loved the idea of writing in fog, it reminded me… Continue reading A Poem: Fog
Welcome to my blog, the hub of my stories, poems, and essays. I, Kwirky Kate, am an aspiring writer and I am looking forward to sharing my work with you. When I was eight years old I was given a pink diary which I decorated with plastic gems. I distinctly remember the excitement I felt… Continue reading Welcome to My Blog
