Kathryn Olvera
School
Portland State University
Expertise
Biology, Tech, Gaming
- Kathryn enjoys MMO gaming and learned the ins and outs of building her own PC in 2017.
- Her game of choice is World of Warcraft, and her favorite expansion is Legion.
- She participated in the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture Roma Women's Poetry Project in 2020.
Experience
Kathryn has been writing professionally since 2018 and is the former editor-in-chief of HorrOrigins.com. She worked in the audio industry for a decade and has a permanent love for high-quality sound. In 2021, she published a full-length poetry collection under the pseudonym Terra Vagus and has poetry published in several different anthologies.
Education
Kathryn is currently pursuing her degree in Biology with a minor in Anthropology.
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Stories By Kathryn Olvera
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Those who have come close to death oftentimes recall profound experiences involving feelings of peace, bliss, and apathy for their life on Earth.
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Tornadoes are among the most imposing and fascinating weather phenomena, the result of thunderstorms. Here's how thunderstorms become tornadoes.
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Locking yourself in a room with snakes for 72 hours might sound like your worst nightmare, but this man locked himself in with 50 snakes just to prove a point.
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John Larroquette's voice is the legendary narrator that introduces audiences to the story that befalls the main characters in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre."
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Thor's Well, Oregon: the drainpipe of the Pacific Ocean is visible when high tide approaches. People can walk right up to it if they dare.
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It appears that now, the rotation of the core seems to be slowing down and even reversing.
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The TV adaptation of the hit video game "The Last Of Us" has taken viewers by storm, but it's also made us concerned about the real fungi on which it's based.
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Sometimes in sports, family is more than just a legacy, but also records made. For Bobby and Brett Hull, the father-son duo made several records for the NHL.
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Lisa Loring was cast as the fun and unusual daughter of Morticia and Gomez Addams at just 6 years old in 1964. But her career didn't stop there.
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The Arizona company that sold cadavers for military testing profited off the sale of dead bodies in ways their families never consented to.
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Most people probably don't know much about the Butterfly Nebula, but it actually tells us a great deal about the Sun. Here's what we can learn from this nebula.
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For most couples, they want to purchase the perfect house. However, one couple got more than a home, but a small town in Washington, off of an eBay auction.
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The experience of interacting with Hendrix and his awe-inspiring levels of skill on the guitar is something Beck would carry with him for the rest of his life.
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An Oregon man lives inside a grounded Boeing 727 in the middle of the woods, and thinks that grounded planes could be the future of lodging.
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Cats have been both the best friends and enemies of humans for centuries. Here is a weird way to have two way communication with your furry feline companion.
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Sharks in all their various incarnations tend to be mysterious, intriguing, as well as terrifying, with numerous behaviors we still don't fully understand.
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Comedian George Carlin famously asked why there was no blue food, and he had a point — blue is a rare thing to encounter in nature in general.
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Jolly old elf? Check. Red suit? Check. Sleigh full of toys, ready to deliver for Christmas delight? Check. But what about those reindeer, anyway?
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The Bahamas are known for being a beautiful paradise. However, a beloved vacation spot for some is quite literally a hellish prison for others.
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Shortly after Brittney Griner was released from a Russian prison, another U.S. citizen was released in a Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap. Who is Suedi Murekezi ?
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Like many other traditions, the act of making a wish on a fallen eyelash developed from pagan roots. Here's how this superstition came to be.
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Reports of alien abductions are subject to intense scrutiny, both by those inclined to automatically believe them true and those who are more skeptical.
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By any standard, Grant Wahl was a recognized and highly accomplished sports journalist, and the world was shocked by his sudden death at age 48.
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To meet the definition of serial killer, a criminal exhibits certain patterns of defined behavior, whether they're in Florida or in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Violence in dramatic presentations on film and TV doesn't actually involve real weapons, real fisticuffs, real damage — at least, we hope not. But the sound?
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Fans of immersive games like "World of Warcraft" are known to play for hours at a time. Here is how one gaming marathon resulted in the death of one fan.
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Climate change is altering the very nature of the Earth, making it unsustainable for some species to live on, including many reptiles.