Catherine G. Tripp, Writer
Welcome to CGTripp Enterprises.com, the author's website for Catherine G. Tripp.
If Catherine’s writings were expressed in one color, it would be yellow, bright as sunlight, highlighting the salient portions, deconstructing air brushed stories, and finding humor and courage in the unloved corners. A scribbler since childhood, Catherine has published financial columns, short stories, poetry, essays. Since leaving banking behind, she seeks to inspire readers to notice people, to laugh, to question accepted history and shift the dominant paradigm. She lives in Hawaii where she is writing a historical novel about a brave entrepreneurial abolitionist, Ms. Mary Ellen Pleasant, as well as polishing her craft through conferences and workshops. Read full stories and poems by clicking on the links below.
If Catherine’s writings were expressed in one color, it would be yellow, bright as sunlight, highlighting the salient portions, deconstructing air brushed stories, and finding humor and courage in the unloved corners. A scribbler since childhood, Catherine has published financial columns, short stories, poetry, essays. Since leaving banking behind, she seeks to inspire readers to notice people, to laugh, to question accepted history and shift the dominant paradigm. She lives in Hawaii where she is writing a historical novel about a brave entrepreneurial abolitionist, Ms. Mary Ellen Pleasant, as well as polishing her craft through conferences and workshops. Read full stories and poems by clicking on the links below.
“Heaven must be filled with cats” and “Cats are so much like us”
Two poems published by Parakeet Magazine in January 2023.
Excerpt: “Heaven must be filled with cats/Filled with that tufty twinkling trust/Rare and special and earned…”
Link to poems: https://parakeetmagazine.wordpress.com/january-2023
Two poems published by Parakeet Magazine in January 2023.
Excerpt: “Heaven must be filled with cats/Filled with that tufty twinkling trust/Rare and special and earned…”
Link to poems: https://parakeetmagazine.wordpress.com/january-2023
The author and her mother Tera Tripp Treadaway
"Her name was Tera"
A memoir vignette dedicated to Catherine's fierce mother, Tera published by Memoirist.org online November 2022.
Excerpt: "When I was in my twenties, I surprised my Mom by stating loudly and dramatically that I hated camping. As a matter of fact, I went down on one knee, shook my fist at the air and proclaimed in my best Scarlett O’Hara that: “I will nevah go campin’ agin!”… I hated the ticks though Mom coolly drove them out with the hot tip of her extra long cigarette. They were menthol Mores, which I always thought was a wish unfulfilled.”
Link to Story: www.memoirist.org/post/her-name-was-tera-by-catherine-tripp
A memoir vignette dedicated to Catherine's fierce mother, Tera published by Memoirist.org online November 2022.
Excerpt: "When I was in my twenties, I surprised my Mom by stating loudly and dramatically that I hated camping. As a matter of fact, I went down on one knee, shook my fist at the air and proclaimed in my best Scarlett O’Hara that: “I will nevah go campin’ agin!”… I hated the ticks though Mom coolly drove them out with the hot tip of her extra long cigarette. They were menthol Mores, which I always thought was a wish unfulfilled.”
Link to Story: www.memoirist.org/post/her-name-was-tera-by-catherine-tripp
Embracify 2026
“Embracify 2026”
A short story about the perfect vaccine in the future and its unexpected, world changing side effect. Published online by Sad Girls Literary Blog September 2022.
Excerpt: “Eerie, though, how unobtrusively everything changed. Everyday sounds changed first. People did not honk in traffic. Heavy metal rock was eschewed in favor of the soul soothing symphonies and concertos of the Old Masters, the mellow sounds of soft jazz…”
Link to Story: https://www.sadgirlsclublit.com/post/embracify-2026-catherine-g-tripp
A short story about the perfect vaccine in the future and its unexpected, world changing side effect. Published online by Sad Girls Literary Blog September 2022.
Excerpt: “Eerie, though, how unobtrusively everything changed. Everyday sounds changed first. People did not honk in traffic. Heavy metal rock was eschewed in favor of the soul soothing symphonies and concertos of the Old Masters, the mellow sounds of soft jazz…”
Link to Story: https://www.sadgirlsclublit.com/post/embracify-2026-catherine-g-tripp
SOMA Vamp
"SOMA Vamp"
A short story about Beulah, a millennial who codes games South of Market, and really, really wants to be a vampire.
Excerpt: "Considering the undeniable fact that <oh my Goddess> he is gorgeous, she ponders briefly taking a selfie and IM’ing it immediately to the Women Who Wine. They would pee themselves. He is ghostly pale, like LeStat in Interview, and elegant in chiseled black attire…”
Link to Story: https://blog.reedsy.com/short-story/v0p5s1/
A short story about Beulah, a millennial who codes games South of Market, and really, really wants to be a vampire.
Excerpt: "Considering the undeniable fact that <oh my Goddess> he is gorgeous, she ponders briefly taking a selfie and IM’ing it immediately to the Women Who Wine. They would pee themselves. He is ghostly pale, like LeStat in Interview, and elegant in chiseled black attire…”
Link to Story: https://blog.reedsy.com/short-story/v0p5s1/
“Winehouse Brandy”
A poem published by The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal (available in print only) in their September 2022 issue.
Excerpt: “Teasing her hair up just before the show/lining her eyes in long strokes like a Pharaoh/She is sex honest on stage/Brandishing belly she pours her frail brute strength down inside your head/like Alambic Brandy, and you smack your lips/Ah/that burns so smooth/pour me another…”
Link to buy Haight Ashbury Literary Journal: www.0s-1s.com/haight-ashbury-literary-journal
A poem published by The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal (available in print only) in their September 2022 issue.
Excerpt: “Teasing her hair up just before the show/lining her eyes in long strokes like a Pharaoh/She is sex honest on stage/Brandishing belly she pours her frail brute strength down inside your head/like Alambic Brandy, and you smack your lips/Ah/that burns so smooth/pour me another…”
Link to buy Haight Ashbury Literary Journal: www.0s-1s.com/haight-ashbury-literary-journal
The author with Aruba, her familiar
"Into the Raw Dark"
A poem chosen for An Evening with Emily Dickinson published by Wingless Dreamer in June 2021
Excerpt: "And she will blink, my familiar/Silver balls lit with moonlight drop once again into my hands…”
Link to Wingless Dreamer Anthology: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096YPWZ8P
A poem chosen for An Evening with Emily Dickinson published by Wingless Dreamer in June 2021
Excerpt: "And she will blink, my familiar/Silver balls lit with moonlight drop once again into my hands…”
Link to Wingless Dreamer Anthology: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096YPWZ8P
"Dear 2020, a letter from 2021" a 1,995 word essay about the six trends that made 2020 a year of Curses and Lies, was recognized for excellence by Writer's Digest in 2021.