In Conversation: Exercising with Chronic Illness
Jay: I recently wrote an essay about exercising with chronic illness for MTV Fit and that led to us talking about the topic. The basic issue I face is that …
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Mystery Diagnoses and The Big Sick
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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The Next Time You’ll Be Told to Take Nothing by Mouth
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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The Hum: An Essay in Response to Sonya Huber
By Jay Summer A couple of months ago, I noticed a new sound and vibration in my apartment. A whirring that seemed to come from below. Whenever I sat down …
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Disintegrating in the Rain
Jack Felice is a graduate of Florida State University, where he studied creative writing and art history. He currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida. His artwork has appeared in Northridge Review, Five2One, …
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Brujería and Healing: An Interview with Lorraine Monteagut of Bruja Heights
Brujería has been appearing more and more in trending hashtags, online articles, and Instagram posts. In Spanish, it means witchcraft, but that may or may not be how many are …
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Book Giveaway! Pain Woman Takes Your Keys (Part Two)
We’re at it again! Last week we gave away two copies of Pain Woman Takes Your Keys by Sonya Huber, and this week we’re giving away three more. (Read our …
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Sign-up for the Chronically Lit Email List
We’re going to send out a message to the Chronically Lit email list every Monday. Sign up. 🙂 Email Address * First Name Last Name Email Format html text * …
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Link Roundup: August 10th, 2018
Hi all! It’s Jay. I plan on doing a link roundup every Friday and this is the third one. If you encounter a link you think I might want to …
Read More Book Giveaway: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys by Sonya Huber
8/12/18 Update: We’ve chosen winners for these two books. Congrats, Emma & Sarah! Welcome to our first-ever book giveaway! We have FIVE copies of Sonya Huber‘s Pain Woman Takes Your …
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