Melancholia in Metaphor Only

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Jun 23 • Kathleen Clare Waller

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May 2026

Hope in Negative Spaces

After my husband's death

May 3 • Kathleen Clare Waller

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April 2026

Lost in Fukuoka

Fiction. After Sofia, Bill, and Scarlett.

Apr 14 • Kathleen Clare Waller

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March 2026

Flashes from February

Plus, join me and Ben Wakeman this week on Substack Live

Mar 3 • Kathleen Clare Waller

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January 2026

Uketsu's Strange Houses and the Labyrinth of Domesticity

Encountering interiors and ourselves

Jan 27 • Kathleen Clare Waller

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What's Happening in 2026?

Writing and projects!

Jan 6 • Kathleen Clare Waller

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December 2025

Notes from the Classroom

A montage -- A Doll's House, Mandela, agent-seeking, city poetry, gray faces, Greek-style tragedy...

Dec 16, 2025 • Kathleen Clare Waller

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November 2025

Do you dare...write in present tense?

A challenging but worthy pursuit

Nov 25, 2025 • Kathleen Clare Waller

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The Konbini and the Happy Tree | 3 - Yuka

Fiction in three parts: the uncanny meeting of an immigrant, a cashier, and an old woman

Nov 11, 2025 • Kathleen Clare Waller

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The Konbini and the Happy Tree | 2 - Aoto

Fiction in three parts: the uncanny meeting of an immigrant, a cashier, and an old woman

Nov 4, 2025 • Kathleen Clare Waller

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October 2025

The Konbini and the Happy Tree | 1 - Éloïse

Fiction in three parts: the uncanny meeting of an immigrant, a cashier, and an old woman

Oct 28, 2025 • Kathleen Clare Waller

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Letter from the Amami Islands

On the writing of cities and nature

Oct 7, 2025 • Kathleen Clare Waller

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