Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

by Crystal Smith Paul

Half of the work that is done in the world Is to make things appear what they are not. —E. R. BEADLE

Elise could mimic emotions she didn’t feel on command but had no ability to express the ones that were true.

“There are as many sides to the truth as people telling the story.”

With one’s attention turned outward, one forgets one’s own ability to harness understanding of the truth.

“People can tell you they love you three times a day and still treat you any kind of way when it really comes down to it.”

“My momma says religion was given to make us feel that suffering is noble. It’s not.”

When people don’t like themselves, it makes them mean. You understand?”

a wickedly dry sense of humor, the type of wit likely to incite a laughing fit at a funeral.

“We always have a choice; we only say we don’t to soothe our conscience from what we’re capable of.”