Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

Author's posts

May 15

“Emily’s Fifth Birthday” and “Alternative Medicine”

By Kater in writing

Dear Blog Friends, As practice before I post my novel, I decided to post some of my short stories as singles. Like a vinyl single, mine are going to have an A side and a B side. The A side of this is “Emily’s Fifth Birthday” a very literary science fiction short story I wrote …

May 13

Cobalt Stamp Plate 6

By Kater in Pottery

The photo on this didnt’ turn out as well as I had hoped, but it was either take a crappy photo or not get it photographed at all, because I’m using my table for another project. This plate is actually twice as large as the others, because I used a larger meat tray.

cobalt, meat tray, plate, Pottery, slab

May 13

Free Fiction Spotlight: Abyss and Apex

By Kater in writing

Dear Blog Friends, I was talking about short story submissions the other day, and realized with shock and alarm that many of my reader friends don’t know that there’s a wealth of free (and cheap) fiction out there to read on the web. So I present you with “Free Fiction Spotlight” where you can …

abyss and apex, fantasy, fiction, free fiction spotlight, science fiction, short stories

May 11

Cobalt Stamp Plate 5

By Kater in Pottery

After I stamped the image, the second step was to cut them out and lay them gently into styrofoam meat trays. I pushed the clay into the corner to get a neat shape, and then trimmed the edges. I’ve done a lot of these. It’s not as easy as it looks. The less you touch …

cobalt, meat tray, Pottery, rubber stamp