Fiction – Kalin Ringkvist

Kindness is True

June 18, 2026June 18, 2026 Kalin

Once upon a modern time, an emotionally healthy guy named Kyle lived in a little apartment overlooking the town of Soggy Bottom on one side and Deer-Fart Park on the other. Kyle had a little buddy named Alan. Alan enjoyed collecting junk off the street and turning it into pieces of art. It represented how we can take little broken pieces of our lives and turn them into something fun. A little dragon made of tin cans and plastic spoons sat on Kyle’s deck. One day Kyle drove home from…

Billy Doesn’t Want to Hit Himself in the Head with a Hammer

November 5, 2022November 5, 2022 Kalin

There is a person named Billy who lives in a world where the most common cure for a headache is hitting yourself in the head with a hammer. But Billy doesn’t want to do that. Billy thinks that hitting himself in the head with a hammer will actually make his headaches worse, but when he says this, everyone laughs at him and calls him names. So Billy keeps quiet about his beliefs. He even sometimes lies and tells people that he does hit himself in the head with a hammer,…