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Plato’s Postcard

Rhapsode is a woman singing for her life at the symposium where all the men ask, “What is love?” but the nine muses have gone and my daemon…

1 min readFeb 6, 2024

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Fearless She Wrote

5 Ways My Father’s Infidelity Still Affects My Life

When my sister and I were little, as soon as we heard his keys rattle the lock, we would run to meet my father at the door. We cheered and…

7 min readSep 2, 2019

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P.S. I Love You

I Let My Dreams Wait. Then I Turned 40.

The year I turned 40, my right knee gave out, I was unhappy at work, and my marriage felt really shaky.

4 min readSep 23, 2019

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A Mother

I was born a mother with my sons tucked into the chambers of my heart

1 min readApr 1, 2024

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A Mother

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Memory Pills

we can agree that we’ve been drunk naked swimming in that lake

1 min readMar 12, 2024

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Memory Pills

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K.L. Rivera

me and her

She puts bandaids on everything on our bleeding gapping wounds never seen never addressed we share the same arguments over and over but I…

1 min readOct 13, 2022

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To all the hood boys I’ve loved before..

long ago

2 min readNov 23, 2021

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To all the hood boys I’ve loved before..

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K.L. Rivera

6 Sexy Film Scenes Ranked

Chemistry is a must, but so is story, music and setting!

11 min readOct 31, 2021

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6 Sexy Film Scenes Ranked

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The Junction

I Want To Be Trapped

I want to be trapped with you in an old victorian house that smells of birchwood and sage with dark halls leading to drafty rooms holding…

2 min readMar 2, 2021

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I Want To Be Trapped

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The Junction

Nancy’s Husband

The corrosion is slow, like the start of a rust bubble on the tip of a good knife.

8 min readMar 13, 2020

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K.L. Rivera

K.L. Rivera

I write about my life. I write stories. I write poetry. I write for work. I write and write because it makes me happy. Read me here too klrivera.com

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