Kate Kasten

• May-2025
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A Guilt Tripper kit designed to make your lover take your suffering seriously. Too Much Heaven-is it possible to have it? Abuse of the word literally (My grandma could literally snore the paint off the walls). Tips for avoiding political news. An Ode...

• Jul-2020
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This unique collection is a blend of stories-some weighty, some light-along with monologues and dialogues drawn from the author's stint as a solo performer and writer of satirical sketch comedy. An ice tray that elicits fury, a family feud over adult...

• May-2018
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The people in these eight stories all travel across the divide between the familiar and the foreign. For some it is a geographical journey, for others it's psychological. In most it's both. In this arresting collection, a survivor of the Chinese Cult...

• Apr-2017
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English as a Second Language teacher, Jane Frost, is pleased with the diversity of countries represented in her Fall, 2009 class: Kuwait, Indonesia, Tanzania, Korea, China, Japan and El Salvador. In her twenty-fourth year of teaching, she feels more ...

• Aug-2013
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These fanciful stories are based on well-known European fairy tales and fables. As with the originals, some are light and whimsical, others ferociously grim. They are written in the traditional language and style that we remember from childhood, but ...

• Jul-2013
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Helen and Cal Earlywine, in their early '70s, are the last of generations to work their rural Iowa farm. Their beloved son Tom was to have carried on the tradition, but, twenty-six years ago at age twenty, he met a sudden death. Now, when much more o...

• Oct-2011
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At forty-five, clinical psychologist Davida Grayson, leaves a thriving practice in Oakland, California to return to her childhood home in Still Water, Kansas after the death of her reclusive father. Her mother is in a nursing home, suffering from Alz...

• Nov-2010
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Kit Lamb, as a troubled teenager, has been drawn into a Charismatic Christian church, where he feels "saved" not only by his new religion but by his fatherly pastor, Ezra. Now, at twenty-one, he travels to Guatemala to learn Spanish and fit himself f...