Kendall Defoe
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Teacher, reader, writer, dreamer... I am a college instructor who cannot stop letting his thoughts end up on the page. No AI. No Fake Work. It's all me...
And I did this:
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It was all Michael’s fault. After three weeks of dating, he really wanted to do something special for Sara. There were flowers (white roses; a favourite she mentioned in passing), candy (little Coke bottles; he liked them, too), and a dinner (home cooked when his parents were out and he finally learned how to make his own bread). It was all perfect; Sara told him so. And then, his first big mistake that felt like the perfect ending.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Fiction
9/11 There...
Everyone has their own memories of the day, even those who may barely remember it or only heard about it in passing as a child who was not forced to recall such terror. And I have avoided writing about it because I felt that all that could be said had been said. But I am compelled to look back at it now.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Journal
Kendall Defoe, Please Stand Up
This is my response to Kayleigh Fraser's Get to Know Me #Challenge: I really do not want to do this. I hesitated for a very long time before writing this. I have read many of your other entries and noted the highs and lows in all of your lives. I thought that would make it easier for me to come up with a list of ten things about myself that you may want to know (or at least ten things that won’t make the average Vocalist feel bad about their own lives).
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Confessions
Bus Ride
Here is my contribution to Mother Combs' Campfire Stories Challenge: The bus was full during rush hour, but she was very lucky. There was one seat available in the very back, and she was able to walk slowly past all of the passengers, strollers, and baggage to see that it was next to a very handsome man. Nice suit, good cologne, and a winning smile. All of the people she saw at work were the usual dull office drones. She gave up on them a long time ago. And she wondered…
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Fiction
What I Did Before My Summer Vacation...
It was all my fault. I saw her arm rise, bent and coming up fast, with the fingers tight in what looked like a claw more than a fist and her face was tense. It was like she knew what she had to do. I was happy about that because I thought that I deserved whatever she had to dish out. I had been a dumb-ass for most of the year. She was only responding with anger to my mistakes, doing what I may have done (shoe and the other foot). We had been together for a while... and at least we dated.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Fiction
The Night I Lost My Virginity
You have made it this far, so you deserve to know more. I have promised myself that any embarrassing moment I felt did not paint me in a positive light would be considered carefully…and then thrown into the pot. And why not? We all have done it, or we wish to have done it, or we want to do it in the near future as soon as possible. From the loneliest basement dweller to the most desperate housewife flipping through a Harlequin romance, it is on all of our minds. And this might offer some insight on how to get more of it in one’s own life and to actually enjoy it. After all the embarrassing other moments in my life that you have read about – the hot air balloon fiasco; the questionable reallocation of funds at the Vatican; my role in the breakup of Charles and Diana, etc. – this needs to be discussed.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Chapters
Ten Writers I Need to Recommend. Top Story - September 2023.
I seem to have stirred a pot a little too hard for some of you. In a previous piece entitled “Ten Writers I Can No Longer Read,” I listed the names of authors that I now avoid, with some fair reasons for my choices (I even included a list of other runners-up that could have made the list longer).
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Critique
We Sold Our Souls for RRSPs!
Rock and roll! Yeah, man!! We were all gonna rock hard!!! The bill's due when...? Damn... *(Note on the term RRSP: this is the Canadian Registered Retirement Savings Plan, something that we pay into for our future retirement; and we hope that we can still rock...)
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Poets
The Ringer
The Ringer… She really was one, y’know? The meaning of that word has changed a lot, but nothing else has. Just glad that I can talk to you about this and that you wanna know what the big deal was all about. I’m just glad that someone is going to remember one of my best friends.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Fiction
