Katerina Petrou
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Combining my passions of travelling, food, poetry and photography, I welcome you to read my stories.
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Underneath The Lychgate. Content Warning.
These steps feel uncertain as the Earth they cover. Attempting to remember everything I have heard about this tradition. A ritual. One that can only be activated should you trail your steps underneath the lychgate. Lifting my solemn head high, the ceiling of stone haunts me. Will this power be fulfilled with such hesitation? Trepidation and so much fear. Without breathing, I force my feet forward through the tunnel. Into the garden of re-birth and spirit.
By Katerina Petrou2 years ago in Fiction
What Makes A Cook?. Top Story - June 2024.
Despite sipping on a retired pornstar, I felt absolutely drunk. Like two giddy school girls, my mother and I ate in silence. While, every so often, looking up from our spoons to exchange a smile and a light laugh. Underneath the golden chandeliers of Savoy Grill glistened a rich, dark caramel, poured atop the apple tart tatin. A truly euphoric experience, it was.
By Katerina Petrou2 years ago in Feast
Falling. Runner-up in 3:00 AM Challenge. Top Story - December 2025.
Oblivious laughs echo through the humid city air. Flashing lights and car horns. Everything with a slight delay. All edges blurred and softened. Morals, fading. Tripping out of the bar, he links my arm with his. Be careful, I say. If you keep doing things like this, I may just fall in love with you. Stomping along saliva-stained pavement, I thoughtlessly ramble about something and he pretends to follow. Slowly unwinding my arm from his, he laces his fingertips along mine. Losing control of whatever train my thoughts were on, my heart and I stop for a second and turn our gaze to him. I cannot control it. It is too late. I am falling. Falling. Falling. Fall-
By Katerina Petrou2 years ago in Fiction
My Top 10 Books of 2024 So Far
As the year of 2024 progresses, there are books that trail through my thoughts each day. Although I am proud to admit I have absorbed a total of 59 books so far, both print and audio, the last couple weeks of May revealed to me that my purpose for reading had been distorted. It became a challenge. A task. A chore. At one time, reading provided sense to the world I lived in, or an escape from it when it became too much to bear. Now, I will take time to soak in the words and appreciate each of them. Below are the books I read this year that I hold in my soul with the highest regard.
By Katerina Petrou2 years ago in BookClub
Crossing Something Off My Bucket List
I do not attend many concerts - despite my adoration for them. Big or small. However, I have been wanting to watch Arctic Monkeys perform live for probably a decade now. Although the financial aspect of accomplishing this was not shy at all, I feel there are some life experiences worth the expense.
By Katerina Petrou2 years ago in Beat
