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The First Recorded Same-Sex Couple in History
OMG, they were tomb-mates I’m going to rip the bandaid off real quick here by letting all my gaybies know that there is significant (as...
Katlyn Roberts
Sep 23, 20227 min read


How the Concept of Pain Has Changed Throughout History
And why you feel like an a-hole for complaining about it now. Martyrdom of Saint Ciricus and his mother Juliitta represented in the...
Katlyn Roberts
Sep 13, 20229 min read


I Was an Overnight Medium Success Story
Please allow me to update you on "My Incredible Success" I made $613.11 in my first consistent month as a paid contributor due to two...
Katlyn Roberts
Aug 9, 20225 min read


What Happens to Our Love When It’s Filtered Through Grief
Processing 2020 in a cemetery so you don’t have to. A few weeks after the presidential election was called back in my home country, the...
Katlyn Roberts
Dec 29, 202012 min read


Mark Twain vs. the Emperor of the United States
The story of an Americana darling and his living shadow. I’m mad at Mark Twain right now. If you follow along with my writing (and you...
Katlyn Roberts
Jan 31, 20202 min read


Boobies, Conquistadors, and Other Things We Put up on Pedestals
What’s more interesting than the history a public statue represents? How that statue got there in the first place. It occurs to me that I...
Katlyn Roberts
Jan 24, 20203 min read


How to Keep Online Readers Engaged in Long Articles
Check in with your audience and avoid shouting into the void. According to a study by Microsoft, humans now have an attention span of...
Katlyn Roberts
Jan 19, 20209 min read


Depression’s a Funny Little Bugger…
How to coax your creativity out when it wants to crawl inside a hole. So, my “Top Humor Writer” status has gone away since I started...
Katlyn Roberts
Jan 19, 20202 min read


Travel Writing: 7 Tips To Captivate Your Readers
Photo by Jonas Verstuyft on Unsplash Ok, I know I’ve lost your trust with several of my previous listicles. You thought you were gonna...
Katlyn Roberts
Oct 8, 20197 min read


They Called Me Boobasaurus-Rex
An apology letter to my boobs. To my Darling Double-Ds, Started from the bottom, now we here. This letter is a long time coming, I know....
Katlyn Roberts
Oct 8, 20193 min read


Where Can a Girl Get a Decent Bottle of Hot Sauce?
Am American griping in Europe. People ask me all the time what the cultural differences are between the U.S. and Spain and when I say...
Katlyn Roberts
Oct 8, 20193 min read


You’re Sleeping On Breakfast
Breakfast can change your life. I'm cereal. My parents never let me and my siblings eat anything colorful for breakfast because our...
Katlyn Roberts
Oct 8, 20192 min read
The Healing Power of Writing Satire
Tips and tricks to humor your depression. Satire noun The use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize...
Katlyn Roberts
Aug 16, 20194 min read
Life's Too Short To Not Be Pansexual
A genital’s a genital’s a genital’s a genital’s a genital’s a genital’s a genital. Actress Bella Thorne came out as Pansexual yesterday...
Katlyn Roberts
Aug 16, 20192 min read


Immigration in the U.S. Hasn't Changed in 100 Years
And I've got the freaky historical evidence to prove it. Come along, dear reader, on a racist, xenophobic, antisemitic journey through...
Katlyn Roberts
Jun 14, 20193 min read


PMS Jitters Got You Down? Yell At Your Mom
And other healthy outlets. Ladies and people with lady bits, I don’t know about you, but my favorite time of the month is that period...
Katlyn Roberts
Jun 14, 20192 min read


The Statues in Egypt Used to Have Eyeballs
This. Changes. Everything. Mitri the Scribe looking fresh as ever. Mitri the Scribe was once the highest-paid servant of Pharaoh Unas in...
Katlyn Roberts
Mar 18, 20199 min read


Secrets of a Lady’s Toilet
The Satirical Genius and Revolutionary Feminism of Lola Montez. “I expect to win the gratitude of the whole masculine gender by these...
Katlyn Roberts
Mar 18, 20195 min read


Woman Dies After Boyfriend Buys Her a Color-Changing Sequin Pillow for Valentine’s Day
A 28-year-old woman has died a graphic, gruesome death after coming home on Valentine’s Day to discover her boyfriend bought her one of...
Katlyn Roberts
Mar 18, 20192 min read


If You’re Not a Freelance Writer Now…
… you will be by the time you’re done reading this. Are you tired of living with your parents and ignoring emails from FedLoan? Have you...
Katlyn Roberts
Mar 18, 20193 min read
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