Radiate Me
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
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
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
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
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
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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What Haven’t We Tried?
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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Post Diagnosis: Learning to Live With Your Assassin
By Sarah Birdsong Mere weeks after Hurricane Irma raged her way through Atlanta in the month of September, 2017, I sat on the patient bed of my local gastroenterologist. The …
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The Lorikeet
By Ann Rosenthal The wild lorikeet sits on the branch outside the library. I read its colors like the gaudy cover of a book. It’s not a native bird. An …
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