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What Happens to Our Love When It’s Filtered Through Grief
Katlyn Roberts
  • Dec 29, 2020
  • 5 min

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 U...
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Mark Twain vs. the Emperor of the United States
Katlyn Roberts
  • Jan 31, 2020
  • 2 min

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 ca...
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Boobies, Conquistadors, and Other Things We Put up on Pedestals
Katlyn Roberts
  • Jan 24, 2020
  • 3 min

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...
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How to Keep Online Readers Engaged in Long Articles
Katlyn Roberts
  • Jan 19, 2020
  • 4 min

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 eig...
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Depression’s a Funny Little Bugger…
Katlyn Roberts
  • Jan 19, 2020
  • 2 min

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 writ...
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Travel Writing: 7 Tips To Captivate Your Readers
Katlyn Roberts
  • Oct 8, 2019
  • 3 min

Travel Writing: 7 Tips To Captivate Your Readers

Ok, I know I’ve lost your trust with several of my previous listicles. You thought you were gonna get real tips on how to be a freelance w...
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They Called Me Boobasaurus-Rex
Katlyn Roberts
  • Oct 8, 2019
  • 3 min

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. ...
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Where Can a Girl Get a Decent Bottle of Hot Sauce?
Katlyn Roberts
  • Oct 8, 2019
  • 3 min

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 “pe...
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You’re Sleeping On Breakfast
Katlyn Roberts
  • Oct 8, 2019
  • 2 min

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 versi...
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The Ancient Egyptian Book of Gender
Katlyn Roberts
  • Oct 8, 2019
  • 2 min

The Ancient Egyptian Book of Gender

Be them all, henny! They're magic! There’s a temple in Egypt, near Dendera, devoted to the Goddess Hathor. Hathor’s my girl, ok? Not only...
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Katlyn Roberts
  • Aug 16, 2019
  • 4 min

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 people’...
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Katlyn Roberts
  • Aug 16, 2019
  • 2 min

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 o...
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Beat the Heat Like a Spaniard
Katlyn Roberts
  • Jul 29, 2019
  • 2 min

Beat the Heat Like a Spaniard

Maintaining sanity when you’re standing in a puddle of your own sweat. I moved to Spain two years ago, so this will be my third summer of...
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Immigration in the U.S. Hasn't Changed in 100 Years
Katlyn Roberts
  • Jun 14, 2019
  • 3 min

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 ti...
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PMS Jitters Got You Down? Yell At Your Mom
Katlyn Roberts
  • Jun 14, 2019
  • 2 min

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 rig...
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The Statues in Egypt Used to Have Eyeballs
Katlyn Roberts
  • Mar 18, 2019
  • 5 min

The Statues in Egypt Used to Have Eyeballs

This. Changes. Everything. Mitri the Scribe was once the highest-paid servant of Pharaoh Unas in the 24th century BC. He was the guy you w...
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The Secret To My Incredible Success As A Writer
Katlyn Roberts
  • Mar 18, 2019
  • 3 min

The Secret To My Incredible Success As A Writer

Hello, yes, thank you. I am an authority. Tis I. That writer you followed a while back on Medium. You may know me from my recent smash hi...
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Secrets of a Lady’s Toilet
Katlyn Roberts
  • Mar 18, 2019
  • 5 min

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 rul...
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Woman Dies After Boyfriend Buys Her a Color-Changing Sequin Pillow for Valentine’s Day
Katlyn Roberts
  • Mar 18, 2019
  • 2 min

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 t...
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If You’re Not a Freelance Writer Now…
Katlyn Roberts
  • Mar 18, 2019
  • 3 min

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 ...
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