Archive - Catalectic

Book Review Contest Winner: Love in the Time of Incarceration

by Alicia Kenworthy

Published on Freddie deBoer • Mar 8

February 2024

Here's a Quarter

Thoughts on the deepening rift between Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus

Feb 5 •

Alicia Kenworthy

January 2024

Hyperbaric Oxygen & Finnegan's Wake

I should be in an airport in Miami right now, en route to Costa Rica, for a writing retreat. I would have landed at Liberia Guanacaste which confuses…

Jan 24 •

Alicia Kenworthy

December 2023

A Whale of a Problem

Mark is cheating on us. He delivers the news matter-of-factly, almost under his breath, to fill an already awkward pause in conversation. None of us…

Dec 21, 2023 •

Alicia Kenworthy

Have you ever heard a friend’s work voice for the first time? he asks. The question throws me back to cusp-of-30; Friends who talk system integrations…

Dec 17, 2023 •

Alicia Kenworthy

October 2023

My mom asks how it went last night. Was I performing? Or just seeing a friend? I tell her I just went to see a friend. That’s so generous, she says…

Oct 27, 2023 •

Alicia Kenworthy

Poetry on Vintage Tea Towels

A Story for the MOTH

Oct 24, 2023 •

Alicia Kenworthy

There’s a coffee shop on Main Street in Warrenton where I’ve taken to reading stories. Every now and then someone will sit at a table adjacent and hop…

Oct 5, 2023 •

Alicia Kenworthy

September 2023

My Prom was Built on a Lie, Too

Thoughts on Hasan Minhaj and truth in storytelling

Sep 26, 2023 •

Alicia Kenworthy

The Man of the Woods

Published on Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life • Sep 14, 2023

It’s one of those days where I’ve had too much caffeine. I distracted myself over the three-day weekend by hosting a handful of guests and entertaining…

Sep 8, 2023 •

Alicia Kenworthy

This is why God made Emojis

Re: Ted Mosby, Writer's Block and "Check Yes or No"

Sep 6, 2023 •

Alicia Kenworthy

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