Katherine Merrill

Katherine Merrill is a current writing student at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She began writing at age twelve and her stories usually feature dark humor. Her work has been published in the Backbone Mountain Review and by Peevish Penman.

Stories from Katherine Merrill

Upstairs

I was almost asleep when the phone calls started.

"Hello?" I asked. The line would go dead. A minute later, it would ring again.

I could see on the caller ID that it was the woman from upstairs. Her name was Ida Nelly and she weighed over 400 pounds. Sometimes when she walked around, our apartment would shake. Dave and I pretended not to mind. It was the polite thing to do.