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I Don’t Know by Lindsey Schaffer

September 21, 2020September 18, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Look both ways before crossing the street, always chew before you swallow, don’t talk to strangers. These are the first basic lessons I learned from my parents.  As I grew …

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Questions without Answers by Wendy Kennar

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 - Leave a Comment

During dinner recently, my ten-year-old son Ryan told me his fifth-grade class was learning about communicable diseases. It was a hard word to say, and he struggled to pronounce it …

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Radiate Me

May 16, 2020May 16, 2020 - Leave a Comment

On the radiation table, there is a moment when I can see the top part of my body outlined by green light. This is not the first time this year …

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Undiagnosed by Ashley Wylie

May 16, 2020July 9, 2020 - Leave a Comment

When I was 14, I shaved one of my eyebrows off.  In an impatient attempt to become beautiful, my hand slipped. After blinking a few times in the three-way mirror, …

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Stories of Apocalypse, or Survival Fantasies by Audrey Carroll

January 20, 2020January 11, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Advantage: I am a student of the Earth, reading old folklore about which herbs help rheumatism, investigating bird species and their usual habitat ranges. Understanding patterns doesn’t require anything but …

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I Do Not Talk About Spoons by Rachael Dickzen

January 13, 2020January 11, 2020 - Leave a Comment

They say a person with chronic illness only has so many spoons to get through each day. Each action, each sentence, each movement takes a spoon away, and when the …

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Before or After the Fall

September 19, 2019September 20, 2019 - Leave a Comment

By Kelli C. Trinoskey Next to my desk at work, there is a picture of me with my three daughters standing in front of stone formations of South Dakota’s Badlands. …

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Health in the Hands of the People

September 8, 2019September 8, 2019 - Leave a Comment

By Marissa Spear Point six of the Black Panther Party’s 1972 iteration of the Ten-Point Program clearly states: We want “completely free health care for all black and oppressed people.”[1] …

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Title What We Haven't Tried Yet by Carol Pierson Holding
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What Haven’t We Tried?

May 28, 2019June 7, 2019 - Leave a Comment

After you turned sixteen and your body came into its own and I said you looked voluptuous and your father said you were getting a bit broad in the beam; …

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Essay Bare by Cheryl Boyer
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Bare

March 5, 2019March 5, 2019 - Leave a Comment

By Cheryl Boyer Naked except for a paper-thin gown, I sit in a room like so many others that have stripped me of my identity. Cold. Sterile. White walls. White …

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