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Month: August 2018

expectation vs reality by evelyn benvie
Art / Features

Expectation vs. Reality

August 28, 2018August 29, 2018 - Leave a Comment

By Evelyn Benvie Artist statement: From my experience, when you have a chronic illness, everyone around you expects you to still just press on. Be the good little engine that could, …

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medusa in the emergency room by cade leebron
Features / Poetry

Medusa in the Emergency Room

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 - 1 Comment

By Cade Leebron Call me Curly-Q for the swirled snake IV line spiraling out of my upper arm. Nothing perfect ever ends, or that’s a lie I’m okay hanging out …

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Chronically Lits link roundup
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Link Roundup: August 24th, 2018

August 24, 2018September 2, 2018 - Leave a Comment

Hi all! It’s Jay. I do a link roundup every Friday and this is the fifth one. If you encounter a link you think I might want to share, please …

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equifinality by sarah boon
Essays / Features

Equifinality

August 22, 2018August 22, 2018 - 2 Comments.

By Sarah Boon I have a three-inch scar on my left forearm, winding thin and white across my yellow-brown skin. The dog who gave it to me, with his childlike …

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Sugar, Sugar by Annie Wood
Art / Features

Sugar, Sugar

August 21, 2018August 21, 2018 - Leave a Comment

By Annie Wood Annie Wood created “Sugar, Sugar” (part of the “Sugar” series) using mixed media, including Diabetic test strips. Find her at anniewood.com, Instagram, twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. Contact her …

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Nicole Storey poem
Features / Poetry

Putting the Cart Before the Horse

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018 - Leave a Comment

By Nicole Storey I was a blackbird for Halloween when those shapeshifters came out of the terraforming colony and explained that destiny is only a mile away from the gas …

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chronically lit link roundup
Link Roundup

Link Roundup: August 17th, 2018

August 17, 2018August 17, 2018 - Leave a Comment

Hi all! It’s Jay. I plan on doing a link roundup every Friday and this is the fourth one. If you encounter a link you think I might want to …

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Ain't That Somethin' water image
Features / Fiction

Ain’t That Somethin’

August 16, 2018 - Leave a Comment

by Noah Kirby Water would be nice, you think. But the nurse wasn’t asking you, she was asking your father. He lies there dying of cancer, but all you can …

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the big sick movie review
Features / Movie Reviews / Reviews

Mystery Diagnoses and The Big Sick

August 14, 2018May 3, 2022 - Leave a Comment

By Annalise Mabe Last September, my stomach began to ache in a new pain–a more severe pain than I’ve ever known. While I’ve had Crohn’s disease for ten years, I …

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Features / Poetry

The Next Time You’ll Be Told to Take Nothing by Mouth

August 13, 2018August 13, 2018 - 6 Comments.

until doctors determine whether you’ll need more surgery, you’re going to crave big hunks of bread with butter, going to want to rip sticky meat from ribs, even though you …

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