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Caves by Brittani Miller

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

Humans love to believe that it’s going to get better. Her lungs had been the first thing to go. She couldn’t venture up a flight of stairs without a five-minute …

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Post Diagnosis_ Learning to Live With Your Assassin
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Post Diagnosis: Learning to Live With Your Assassin

February 18, 2019February 25, 2019 - Leave a Comment

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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For the Doctors Who Don’t Know How To Find Your Body From Here

January 8, 2019January 13, 2019 - Leave a Comment

By Rob Cook Each brick of the hospital attacks each brick next to it. The fighting itself casts a shadethat lengthens over the parking lot,the incurable, pampered vehicles. The sky, …

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ANNE by Anna Allen
Features / Fiction

Anne

December 17, 2018December 14, 2018 - Leave a Comment

By Anna Allen All hospitals smell the same: alcohol wipes, sugar-free cherry Jell-O, and cheap, plasticky bars of soap. The smell gets caught in my hair every time. This time, …

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Link Roundup: October 21st, 2018

October 26, 2018October 26, 2018 - Leave a Comment

I have #multiplesclerosis . I am in an exacerbation. By the grace of the lord, and will power and the understanding producers at Netflix , I have a job. A wonderful job. …

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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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medusa in the emergency room by cade leebron
Features / Poetry

Medusa in the Emergency Room

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 - Leave a 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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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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