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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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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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Link Roundup: December 14th, 2018

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018 - Leave a Comment

Hi all! It’s Jay. I do a link roundup (almost) every Friday. If you encounter a link you think I might want to share, please tweet it at me or Chronically Lit. The …

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The Recovering review
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The Recovering: A Chorus of Support in the Battle Against Addiction

November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 - Leave a Comment

My father quit drinking in 2013 when he was sent home from his fire station, still intoxicated from the night prior. The department offered him a choice: enter a probation …

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Straighten Up, Girl by MacKenzie
Essays / Features

Straighten Up, Girl

October 2, 2018October 23, 2018 - 3 Comments.

By MacKenzie Dexter When I was fourteen, my spine was pinned with twenty-two screws and pinched with two ten-inch rods to correct my scoliosis that had curved my body at …

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learning to cope with hearing loss by mary berset
Essays / Features

Learning to Cope with Hearing Loss

September 27, 2018 - Leave a Comment

I lived with my disability for five years before I found it existed. The comments started in high school. When I was in class and a friend would have 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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fundamentals of caring movie review

Teaching Everyone, Disabled or Not, How to Overcome Their Fears: Fundamentals of Caring Review by Hawken Miller

September 28, 2020September 28, 2020

Caves by Brittani Miller

September 21, 2020September 21, 2020

I Don’t Know by Lindsey Schaffer

September 21, 2020September 18, 2020

Questions without Answers by Wendy Kennar

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

Photography by Danielle Hark

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