Category Archives: books

What is the Meaning of This? Lessons from the Hall of the Fisher King

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Kay Stoner

Most people have no idea that I’ve spent a good deal of the last 20+ years contemplating the Western Mysteries around the Holy Grail. No, not the Grail sagas of Indiana Jones, Dan Brown and the conspiracy theories about Templars … Continue reading →

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It’s not so much the things we do wrong… it’s the lessons we don’t learn

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Kay Stoner

So, that book Strange Bedfellows… The one I wrote way back when, after having the whole story play out to me in a dream ’round about 1993… I think about it frequently. And especially recently, as we all go through … Continue reading →

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Ode to a Clepsydra – #poetry

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Kay Stoner

Ode to a Clepsydra To the alchemist’s eye, water = emotion, and so it is that our moments can be marked by the rise and fall of feeling, a steady stream of anger-eager-joy-hope-faith devotion to emotion. Days that pass without … Continue reading →

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Winter Showers – #poetry

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Kay Stoner

When the rain starts again, comes the relief. The relief of being loosed from months of being careful-so-careful about how long you let the water run at the tap or linger in the shower. When the rain starts at last … Continue reading →

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World of Flesh – #poetry

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Kay Stoner

I. Through the day, you are in it, whether sucking down piping hot coffee at seven a.m., or moving your bowels at 7:30, or craving some- thing — anything at all that’s sweet and filling — in the midmorning hours. … Continue reading →

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You live close to my bones, you… – #poetry

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Kay Stoner

You live close to my bones, you with your soft eyes that can snap hard in a turn, your solid arms with their sure embrace around my heart, every bit of you, from ten solid toes to strong-wide shoulders forging … Continue reading →

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Aftermath – #poetry

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Kay Stoner

Aftermath I. Now, walk up the road, to see what’s what. And yes, Everything does look like it’s had the shit torn out of it. Because it has. Five major winter storms in four weeks. Two of them coming after … Continue reading →

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Ethereal – #poetry

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Kay Stoner

Ethereal The ancients trusted their guts — they knew as well as we (but were braver in the saying) that all we are, all we have ever been, all we will ever be, is made of air. Breathe in… breathe … Continue reading →

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Waking up to something better… picking up where I left off

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Kay Stoner

I love when this happens. I woke up this morning with the solution to the sticky problem I’ve been having with a manuscript I’d all but given up on. I started a novel back in 2015. This was for NaNoWriMo … Continue reading →

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Now on Amazon Kindle – Beloved Distance

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Kay Stoner

Beloved Distance is now available on Amazon – in Kindle format.

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