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KatieGurtis



Booksie Address: http://www.booksie.com/KatieGurtis
Country: United States
Other site: View Link
Favorite book: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy (and the others in my profile)
Member Since: Oct 6, 2008

Featured Writing

KatieGurtis

I Am The Wind

A Poem by KatieGurtis
Posted: Jan 1, 2009
Autobiographical. A simple rhyming poem that I feel...

KatieGurtis

Everything Burns

A Short Story by KatieGurtis
Posted: Nov 30, 2008
A new attempt at Flash fiction. Please comment.

KatieGurtis

Sheep

A Poem by KatieGurtis
Posted: Nov 4, 2008
A little poem I wrote after a day of politics at school....

Writing Portfolio

KatieGurtis

Trapped: A response to Laurel's Challenge

A Poem by KatieGurtis
Posted: Jan 4, 2009
My response to Laurel's challenge. I was give Impressions...

KatieGurtis

I Am The Wind

A Poem by KatieGurtis
Posted: Jan 1, 2009
Autobiographical. A simple rhyming poem that I feel...

KatieGurtis

What about this one?

A Short Story by KatieGurtis
Posted: Dec 21, 2008
I'm not going to tell you what's going on here. I'd...

KatieGurtis

Ceramic Wisdom

A Poem by KatieGurtis
Posted: Dec 21, 2008
A silly haiku about my friend's favorite coffee mug.

KatieGurtis

Festive

A Short Story by KatieGurtis
Posted: Dec 15, 2008
A description of a certain room this holdiay season... ...

KatieGurtis

No One Saw That...

A Short Story by KatieGurtis
Posted: Dec 9, 2008
My first non-fiction piece, about a boatride on the...

KatieGurtis

AC-ROCK-STIC

A Miscellaneous by KatieGurtis
Posted: Dec 4, 2008
Get it? AcROCKstic? Acrostic? With rock in it? *sighs* ...

KatieGurtis

Find a penny...

A Poem by KatieGurtis
Posted: Dec 1, 2008
A different take on the classic: 'find a penny, pick it...

KatieGurtis

Conservative: My entire political dogma in 400 words...

A Essay by KatieGurtis
Posted: Dec 1, 2008
I think the title pretty much says it all. If you...

KatieGurtis

Everything Burns

A Short Story by KatieGurtis
Posted: Nov 30, 2008
A new attempt at Flash fiction. Please comment.

KatieGurtis

Insomniac Romance

A Short Story by KatieGurtis
Posted: Nov 30, 2008
A short story I found looking through my old stuff. I...

KatieGurtis

Battle Myself

A Poem by KatieGurtis
Posted: Nov 22, 2008
The most personal poem I have ever written. About...

KatieGurtis

Reaper: Angel of Death

A Book by KatieGurtis
Posted: Nov 17, 2008
Reaper is one of the worlds most saught after hitmen, she...

KatieGurtis

Coloring Between the Lines

A Short Story by KatieGurtis
Posted: Nov 11, 2008
My answer to Itsuwari's fiction 55 challenge. A bit...

KatieGurtis

Sheep

A Poem by KatieGurtis
Posted: Nov 4, 2008
A little poem I wrote after a day of politics at school....

KatieGurtis

Chapter 1: A Mysterious Gentleman

A Book by KatieGurtis
Posted: Nov 4, 2008
Note: this is a very rough copy of a story I am working...

KatieGurtis

Ode to Sally

A Poem by KatieGurtis
Posted: Oct 6, 2008
Allegorical; designed to represent that old adage,...



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I live in Omaha, and I live for your comments. What else can I say?

Other things I can't live without: Bram Stoker's Dracula, net-a-porter.com, pistachio ice cream, Urban Decay, espresso, Muse, heels, Tim Burton, Victoria Elizabeth Davis Wilson, Ville Valo, the Dead Boys, Helen Isabella Goserand, Social Distortion, scary movies, my iPod, blink-182, FilmStreams, the Economist, the Stray Cats, Iggy Pop, Helmut Lang, Scout/Giving Tree, Alexander McQueen, Sex Pistols,  Henri Matisse, the Hives, American Apparel, Whitney Maire Skutt, BILLY IDOL, Johnny Depp, Calvin Klien, art, Conservatism, windy days, Fall Out Boy, Edward Scissorhands, being barefoot, Tomb Raider, Gerhard Richter, Jackass, Vosges chocolate, Viva la Bam, not playing sports, French movies (Nouvelle Vague), laughing, and reading

Books I love: Dracula -Bram Stoker, Evil Genius -Catherine Jinks(excellent series), Twilight -Stephenie Meyer, Survivor -Chuck Palahniuk, Anthem -Ayn Rand, Black Swan Green -David Mitchell(fantastic), Peter Pan -J.M. Barrie, Tell Me What You See -Zoran Drvenkar, Haunted -Chuck Palahniuk, Possible Side Effects -Augusten Burroughs, 1984 -George Orwell, Winkie -Clifford Chase (almost too pessimistic for me, but still good), Breakfast at Bloomingdales -Kristen Kemp (lovely, lighthearted read), Auschwitz -Dr. Miklos Nyiszli (a bit heavy, but compelling and engrossing), Magical Thinking -Augesten Burroughs,  When the Wind Blows -James Patterson, A Great and Terrible Beauty -Libba Bray (all around great),  Dogs of Babel -Carolyn Parkhurst

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