Karen Madej
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Will You Choose Virtues or Vices?
Greetings, gentle and curious fellow mortals. My name is Madame Illume, presenter and host of Interviews with the Famous. “Destiny, aka Fate, is unfamiliar ground to us all, thus an opportunity arises to find out more about this character who we will all meet on Death’s doorstep. Please put your hands together for Destiny!”
By Karen Madej4 years ago in Fiction
When I'm Gone
Throughout my life, I've flitted from one shiny object to another. I was attracted to males who fancied me and rejected by the ones I wanted with all my senses. I took jobs with employers that would have me. I never once planned a course through my days, weeks, months, and years. I still don't. What will be, will be.
By Karen Madej4 years ago in Motivation
2022 The Daring Year of Wits, Tenacity, and Triumph
The 2022 uprising followed two years of failure to stop the virus, which wiped out millions of vulnerable lives. The human herd became immune. Stronger because they had survived, they looked to the Thinkers, The Environmentalists, and the Scientists. They demanded a future restoration of the planet to one of abundance for all.
By Karen Madej4 years ago in Fiction
Delta Ray Death Star
Of course, everybody knows scientists lie for glory and fortune, but Member of Congress, Madison Cawthorn, expresses nothing but integrity. Beloved Mayor Ray Letifer, a solid ally of Madison, sometimes wonders how he doesn’t explode with love for his family and fellow townspeople.
By Karen Madej4 years ago in Fiction
Heaven Versus Hell on Earth
Maude's Diary - Maundy Thursday 5th April The angels came down from heaven today. At first, I thought it was just me but I could see my neighbors watching too. I turned on the TV, it was on the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. The whole country was watching in a fascinated stupor. The heavenly bodies kept on plummeting.
By Karen Madej4 years ago in Fiction
Afternoon Tea for Two Would Be Lovers
Jean enters the lobby of the Connaught Hotel and heads for the namesake bar. Her Saint Laurent heels precision-clicking on the marble, her stride restricted by the St. John tweed sheath dress. I have the saints with me. I deserve a frisson of excitement. I know John is a duplicitous bastard. His overnight disappearances point to only one conclusion.
By Karen Madej4 years ago in Fiction
Nothing Happened for an Age
She cut the twine and ripped off the brown paper. Then slid the pointy end of her vegetable paring knife along the darker gap in the parcel tape, securing the cardboard flaps. A deft slash along both ends and the flaps sprang upwards released from their sticky hold. She stopped. What on earth possessed her? There could be a severed head in the box for all she knew. But she had to know what secret the cardboard held.
By Karen Madej4 years ago in Fiction
Harmony and the Universe
She never liked the aging process. Either too slow as a child or too fast in her fifties. The forty years in between spent in a blur of life. A life that sped up as she reflected on it. Wondering if her diastolic blood pressure would kill her before the new meds eradicated her allergic reactions to life. Well, that's what she hoped for - curing the chronic rhinitis that is - rather than death by untamed hypertension.
By Karen Madej5 years ago in Fiction
Diana's Enchanted Barn
Good grief! Who the hell rammed the old barn full of empty pickle jars? Did I miss truckloads of the flaming things arriving and strangers secretly stashing them in there while I visited mom in the hospital? Well, you've all got to go. And why exactly would a perfectly sane person be talking to a barn full of glass jars?
By Karen Madej5 years ago in Fiction
