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Brooke Kochel RN

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Being Known

Sweet Body, Sweet Breasts — Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Failed birth. Failed breastfeeding. Failed female body.

Nov 9, 2021

A pregnant woman doing prenatal yoga, concerned about weight gain in pregnancy.

Nov 9, 2021

Published in
The Shortform

Witches (or Wiccans) Are On the Rise

Making up 0.4% of Americans’ religious diversity and growing

Nov 8, 2021

Witches (or Wiccans) Are On the Rise

Nov 8, 2021

Published in
The Shortform

I’m a Nurse, in Time Out, in Quarantine

And I’m mad, finally…

Nov 6, 2021

A mad nurse with an angel’s halo because her patient was unvaccinated for Covid/Coronavirus. She’s exposed to Covid-19, now in quarantine. A simple vaccine could have prevented this.

Nov 6, 2021

Published in
Writers’ Blokke

Medium Tweeted My Story— How I Became a Featured Writer in 2 Months

Featured authors discuss the ins and outs of the honor

Nov 3, 2021

Medium’s Twitter account boasts 2.2 Million followers. While only following 338 accounts, Brooke Kochel RN is one of the chosen few.

Nov 3, 2021

A Curated Halloween Collection on Witches, Devils, Snakes & Death

Fall was full of dark delights. Come read these twisted tales.

Oct 31, 2021

A witch on Halloween casts a deadly spell with magic lights in her hands. She lures you in for tales of death, snakes, Covid, Coronavirus, Covid-19. Read these spooky stories now.

Oct 31, 2021

Published in
An Injustice!

The Year Satanic Panic & Evangelicals Cancelled Halloween

Millennia-old baby killing memes are still alive & well in conservative and religious circles

Oct 29, 2021

A young girl in an angel costume says a prayer before trick-or-treating during Satanic Panic in the ’80s. How fundamentalists Christians do Halloween.

Oct 29, 2021

Published in
Better Humans

How To Save a Life — From Suicide

She said she was suicidal, but I was prepared. You will be too.

Oct 28, 2021

Colorful letters cut from a magazine spell the word suicide. It’s in effect a suicide note.

Oct 28, 2021

I Once Loved a Witch

We have hearts too, ya know

Oct 28, 2021

I Once Loved a Witch

Oct 28, 2021

May You Never — A Haiku

A poem about the suffering I pray you’ll never know

Oct 22, 2021

May You Never — A Haiku

Oct 22, 2021

Published in
An Injustice!

May You Never Know the Pain I’ve Witnessed As a COVID Nurse

A blessing, a warning, a chance to heed them both

Oct 21, 2021

A woman clasps her hands in prayer. Silver rings adorn her fingers.

Oct 21, 2021

Brooke Kochel RN

Brooke Kochel RN

Mama, Midwife, Shamanista: Just a gypsy soul learning to grow roots. Featured & Tweeted by Medium. Words in Better Humans, An Injustice & The Pink.

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