KNEE BRACE PRESS

A place for stories about chronic illness, disability, mental health, and neurodivergence.

Author: Elizabeth Bales Frank

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  • Elizabeth Bales Frank is a novelist and essayist based in Astoria, NY. Her work has appeared in Lit Hub, The Sun, Barrelhouse, Post Road, and other publications. She earned her BFA in film from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and her MLIS from the Pratt Institute. She is working toward her MFA from SUNY Stony Brook. She is at work on a contemplative history of one block in her neighborhood of Astoria. Her website is elizafrank.com

  • Three Sets of Ten

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    One.  The physical therapist asks if you can describe the pain. You can: The tendons around your knee feel like desert-hot barbed wire. Someone has raised your kneecap like a lid, poured shards of broken glass into it, and sewed the lid up again with Frankenstein stitches. Or like razor-sharp jacks – like, the children’s…