September 2012 14
Authors Foreword from New Book
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[Below is a copy of the foreword to X&O: Short Works by me, Kate Horsley]   This collection of short works comes from and is about vastly different stages in my personal and creative life.   “Rat”

July 2012 14
THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS
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Remember Blanche Dubois in the play “Streetcar Named Desire”? Okay – maybe you don’t. Anyway, she says at some point, in her southern drawl, “I must rely on the kindness of strangers” – as though

April 2012 20
WHAT I CAN’T WRITE ABOUT
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Virginia Woolfe wrote an essay called “The Angel in the House,” explaining that women have to kill the angel voice inside them in order to be powerful writers. Truman Capote didn’t have any problem with

February 2012 21
The Religious Assault on Women: Enough Already
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  Morally weak heterosexual men have two strategies for getting laid: rape and religion. Rapists are straight-forward worthless criminals. Men who use religion to justify their control of women are delusional lunatics and/or diabolical bullshitters

December 2011 18
Why Not to Commit Suicide
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  About eight years ago in November, a man I valued very much as a friend and colleague stepped outside his car and shot himself on the asphalt of an emergency room parking lot. His

October 2011 12
WHY I MEDITATE
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All kinds of crap happens. To all of us. I can’t think of an extended period of time in my life when crap didn’t happen. In the past, when I wasn’t meditating and crap happened,