Author: Kristen MacKenzie

Kristen MacKenzie lives on Vashon Island in a quiet cabin where the shelves are filled with herbs for medicine-making, the floor is open for dancing, and the table faces the ocean, waiting for a writer to pick up the pen. Her work has appeared in Brevity, Rawboned, GALA, Extract(s) Daily Dose of Lit, Maudlin House, Blank Fiction, Cease, Cows; Crack the Spine, Eckleburg, Referential, Bluestockings, NAILED, Knee-Jerk, Minerva Rising, Mondegreen, Prick of the Spindle, Crab Fat, Wilderness House, Poydras Review and Diversity Rules. Her short story, Cold Comfort, placed in Honorable Mention in The Women's National Book Association's annual writing contest.
New World

New World

For most of my life, my body has been something to ignore or abuse, to punish or to make invisible. I don’t think I’m alone in this. But it wasn’t always this way.The building blocks were assembled with tremendous care. My parents raised me to believe my body was a ... Read More
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Acceptance

Acceptance

A volcano of ants is under my skin. Squadron of bowling balls barrels through the ally of my mental processes. Ask me to slow down. Ask me and I may break apart – a thousand pieces of me will fly in every direction. I am waiting. I am not waiting ... Read More
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