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Your two-minute map to the monsters, the meaning, and everything in between.
Let me introduce myself: Hi, I’m Kaleene, a writer who believes syntax is how we explain the world, and stories are how we survive it. Some days, I hand you a (often, but not always, dark) fiction drip (🖤 STORIES). Other days, I write away on tech, politics, or parenting myths that run our lives (⚙️ SYNTAX). The posts below are your fast pass: read one from each pillar and let me know your thoughts. By the end, I hope you’ll have laughed, shivered, maybe raged a little, and, possibly, subscribed so we can keep wandering the fault lines together.
Best-Of Guideposts
🖤 STORIES · “Goodbye Alaska” – Written in response to: "Start or end your story with someone arriving somewhere for the first or last time." Reedsy Prompt #300.
⚙️ SYNTAX · “Bathroom-Stall Lullabies” – How Postpartum Reality Turns Moms Into Quiet Monsters.
⚙️ SYNTAX · “Fried Egg Fridays” – Slow Living, AI Agents, and Word Vomit.
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An Alaskan-grown Chicago transplant and a 2x Chicago Marathon finisher, I can be found with a cup of coffee in my hand and a furrowed brow.
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