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About me - Karen Kapteinis

I am a university student, studying Conservation Biology and Ecology, and am frankly obsessed with plants and identifying them. But my main love is writing.

I have been writing ever since I was old enough to hold a pencil in my hand, and then later, a pen.

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Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Vampires: 4 of 127

Standing in the shadows, Eliisabet sighed. She looked out at a world she could no longer touch. It had been taken away, ripped from her grasp with the advent of the Turning. It stirred something in her, but the feeling was too far away for her to touch. There were some who said she would never be able to feel again, never be...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Fantasy: 16 of 496

Siandra could not believe she'd been so stupid. People always said that those who walked down the Whispering Walk never came back in one piece. They always said that those who disobeyed the scriptures of their order were bound for the pits of Abaddon. Being impulsive and headstrong as she was, Siandra had always ignored them...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Mythology: 1 of 13

Sprawled on his couch in his temple on Mount Olympus, Hermes threw his head back and laughed as the movie "Troy" finished playing. "Oh! Oh, dear Zeus and Hera! Those humans will never cease to surprise me!" he gasped, still clutched with hilarity. He laughed until he was aching. He laughed so hard that he was surprised the r...
Sciences > Ecology & Environment Forest thinning is essential for keeping forests healthy and people safe: 6 of 9

Thinning of old growth forests is not a necessary process for forest health and human safety. In fact, it can be detrimental to the forest in several different ways. As a rule, thinning is used to describe the selective removal of trees from a forest to enable the system to function in better ways such as a greater availabil...
Sciences > Ecology & Environment A look at communities within ecosystems: 2 of 3

When looking at an ecosystem and the communities held within, most people inevitably look first at the biological aspects because it is a very obvious part of the landscape. Plants, animals; they are all part of what a person sees when they look at the ecosystem. These integral parts of the landscape are what characterize a ...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Science fiction: 219 of 270

The flames burned higher and higher, igniting the past, turning it to ash. What was once a perfect world now had a huge, gaping hole in it. The chasm stretched wider and wider as the smoke curled higher and higher. Nothing was left but a future full of emptiness and desolation. Myra could not bear to look at the flames and s...