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Category: Personal Essays

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Personal Essays/Random Thoughts/Writing Craft

Mojo mayhem?

Posted on May 11, 2026 by Kim

Reposting a short creative nonfiction essay by Christine Rhein.

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The Casual Workshop that Keeps on Giving

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Kim

During the COVID 19 pandemic–2020 and 2021 to be precise, I did a lot of writing. Madville was young, and relatively easy to manage. I had time on my hand...

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My Mother’s Stories

Posted on February 25, 2025 by Kim

I did my best to collect my mother’s stories when she died. Curating a life in stories, trying to capture the memories, is a chore that many of us find su...

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From Marine Life to Fiction: My Writing Journey

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Kim

Trust Issues won’t be my first book, but it is my first full collection of fictional stories. So, it’s a little like starting over. Becoming an auth...

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Sleeping Sickness: a childhood memory

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Kim

Link to "Sleeping Sickness" that Kimberly Parish Davis wrote and that was just published by Well Read Magazine

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Before Hurricane Helene

Posted on October 20, 2024 by Kim

Kim's impressions of Asheville, North Carolina, days before Hurricane Helene decimated the area.

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Cheating Songs

Posted on June 26, 2021 by Kim

I wrote Cheating Songs for an online workshop I participated in last year, lead by Siobhan Wright. That workshop has generated some of my best work to date. It ...

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Three Publications in a Week

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Kim

It’s a rare week to receive printed proof that someone thought enough of it to include it next to other people’s work they thought enough of to publ...

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A Clip from The Conch Shell 1979

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Kim

An Article I wrote in 1979, “Preserving the Reefs” I was going through some old newspaper clippings my mother saved and I came across this article I...

Kim Davis wrote this history of the Madisonville Sidewalk Cattlemen's Association
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The History of the Madisonville Sidewalk Cattlemen’s Association

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Kim

My History with Madisonville Sidewalk Cattlemen’s Association I wrote this piece for the Madisonville Sidewalk Cattlemen’s Association many years ag...

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