Self-recognition
Rejection Is Reciprocal
“Rejection isn’t personal. Not everyone likes pineapple.”
You swipe left. So do they.
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Karen Kirke · Memoir & Reflections
Excellent instincts.
Ignored every one of them.
A memoir and short reflections on knowing better, and doing it anyway.
The memoir
Mistaking Fire for Warmth.
A love story without the lie.
What begins as heat becomes something harder to name. Explicit in parts. Unflinching throughout.
“The most raw and real story I’ve read in a very long time.”
Sonia M, Australia
Explore the memoirEbook or audiobook · from A$9
18+ · strong language, sexual content and violence
What I write about
We override what we already know. Not once. Repeatedly.
I’m interested in blind spots — how intelligent, self-aware people still mistake fire for warmth. Not to blame. Not to moralise. To understand how we take part in what later hurts us.
Reflections · Free to read or listen
Short pieces.
A few minutes each, and why clarity arrives a little too late.
Knowing vs. doingDiptych
Already Gone
“By the time the breakup text arrived, it wasn’t news. It was punctuation.”
The text wasn’t the story. The silence was.
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Relationships
The Eyes That Matter
“The only thing that changed was my eyes.”
Twenty years. Same man. Same habits. Different eyes.
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