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Cold Takes

The website of writer Kelly J Baker

“I write to banish the monsters away, but maybe the writing only conjures them more.”

—There Be Monsters

Featured Clip

Feeling Like an Impostor

I knew I was an expert, even if I didn't feel like one. After all, I've been working on this topic for nine years. One book down, another left to go. Yet, I couldn't shake the feeling that this was the moment that everyone would know I've always been a fraud.

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Featured Essay

The Honesty of Halloween

For as long as I can remember Halloween, I have loved it. Consistently. Faithfully. Deeply. Halloween was often my favorite holiday, and it remains so. It was easier than the bigger holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, which required me to be shuttled back in forth between my divorced parents. Half a day with only family, […]

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