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Michael A. Kroll

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Catharsis Chronicles

The Final Rice Pudding

A Memory of my Nana

May 12

Kitchen counter with a recipe book on the left, a red cup with red utensils in the middle, a pair of cutting boards next to it, one round and one rectangular with a handle behind a vase of green herbs, and a tear-shaped bottle on the right, either wine or oil.

May 12

Published in

Catharsis Chronicles

A Pencil As A Weapon

In more ways than one

Apr 27

A long, yellow sharpened pencil hangs vertically in the middle of an all-black background.

Apr 27

Published in

The Howling Owl

Losing And Winning At The Winter Olympics

First Came The Athletes, Then The Prisoners

Apr 16

A bright yellow poster showing prison bars in the background with a Black hand holding a black torch thrust through the five interlocking Olympic rings, with this legend at the top in red and blue: Stop The Olympic Prison.

Apr 16

Published in

Catharsis Chronicles

Killing the Killers To Show That Killing Is Wrong

The Anniversary of My Friend’s Execution in the Gas Chamber

Apr 7

An open green gas chamber with two metal chairs inside, used for executions.

Apr 7

Published in

The Howling Owl

Land Snakes Alive

Get your snake and yourself out of my house

Mar 26

A red tail boa constrictor against an all-white background. The boa’s thick body is brown with irregular patterned patches from head to tale outlined in yellowish-cream color, which become maroon colored near the tale.

Mar 26

Published in

The Howling Owl

A National Tragedy In The Midst Of Overseas Euphoria

Assassination at home, family reunion, military draft and hernia abroad

Mar 19

A helmeted man sits at a 3-wheel bicycle with a side platform loaded with stuff, including a large red and smaller blue bucket in the middle of Jalan Sultan (Sultan Street)) festooned on both sides with colorful shop signs.

Mar 19

Published in

The Ugly Monster

I Lost on ‘Wheel Of Fortune’

And let $1,000,000 slip through my fingers

Mar 7

I Lost on ‘Wheel Of Fortune’

Mar 7

Published in

Age of Empathy

I’ve Been Robbed!

A Thief In The Night

Mar 3

Seen as black silhouettes against Venetian Blinds at night is a hand pointing a gun at someone with hands raised.

Mar 3

Published in

Prism & Pen

True Or Falsie: a “Turning Gay” Moment

Introducing my date to a “heathen”

Feb 18

With faces outside the photo’s frame, a young man in long-sleeved white shirt is attaching a corsage to the left wrist of a young woman wearing a formal.

Feb 18

Published in

Catharsis Chronicles

Too Visible For The Peace Corps

A High School Reunion that almost never happened

Feb 13

A class photo shows teacher Michael Kroll sitting in the front row wearing a suit and dark glasses. The students are wearing white school uniforms. On either side of the teacher sit the girls in his class, while the boys stand behind them, under the banner: “Government Secondary School.” There is Chinese writing below the assembled class, designated “Remove B” at the very bottom.

Feb 13

Michael A. Kroll

Michael A. Kroll

he/him

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Where does a story begin and where does it end? My life began long before my birth. My body will turn to dust, but the words I leave will circle forever.

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