Collected Works of Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek
For years, we passively gave up our data to men who built empires of unimaginable wealth and power out of our hopes and fears, our mental and physical health, and our basest desires to own the latest cool products.
Read More What Free Speech and Fake News have in Common“This whole idea that [humans] have this soul or spirit, and they have free will and nobody knows what’s happening inside of me…that’s over.” Dr Yuval Noah
Read More I, ZOMBIEWe all have two parts to ourselves.
Read More CollisionA Visit to the Tailor When I was in Egypt at age ten, that would be in 1967, my siblings and I found the clothes men wore to be very funny. They looked like pajamas to us, long striped cotton garments,. Women were covered from head to toe, all in black. In the villages of […]
Read More Love & Lunacy on the Nile: Jellabiya TimeOn Valentine’s Day I head to Luxor, Egypt to write for two months. Valentine’s Day is always bittersweet, for it is when private investigator Casey Cohen left this earth. In 2000, shortly before he died, he gave me a series of fantastical letters sent to death row inmate, Maureen ‘Miki’ McDermott and made me promise […]
Read More A DANGEORUS WOMAN: Into the LightCheck out the link to my essay on how I freed myself of extra baggage and took off traveling two years ago to find inspiration for my writing. Thank you Amy Oestreicher! “It doesn’t matter if I am in a café in Phoenix, wrapped in blankets on a freezing night in the Sahara Desert, or […]
Read More How I Packed Up and Took Off to See the WorldMy World Project                   New Millennium Writings When I was awarded the New Millennium Writings Nonfiction Award for Reflections from Istanbul, an excerpt from my childhood memoir INTO THE WORLD, I was asked to write an introduction, something about my motivation and approach to writing. I recently received the print edition of the anthology and I re-read […]
Read More INTO THE WORLDI have never, quite honestly, cared much about money or possessions or having a permanent home. My books, however, have been with me for over thirty years, a few more than fifty. These Eskrima sticks have been with me close to twenty years. Other sticks have come and gone. But these I have wrapped and […]
Read More A Beautiful Journey and Remembering Casey CohenSuddenly, instead of the Zombie Apocalypse, I was someplace far worse: bac on the schoolyard with all those entitled boys, and me wanting to join in the games and them pushing me out.
Read More For All the Girls on the SchoolyardAs writers and artists we have unique opportunities to change the world. Check out my article in Night Owl Reviews about the win-win opportunities of social activism. How Social Activism can Inspire and Promote Your Writing–All while Turning You Into a Better Person
Read More How Social Activism can Inspire and Promote Your Writing–All while Turning You into a Better Person
Break Free 