A place for stories about chronic illness, disability, mental health, and neurodivergence.
Short Stories
-
For the first time after nearly half a century, I finally returned to Songzi, where I decided to spend a whole week trying to fulfill my growing nostalgic needs.
-
Some men are breast men. Others are ass men. Will Donahue was an elbow man.
-
In each hand, I grip the exercise band and pull until the band is a taut swath of lime green. My nose twitches at the synthetic smell of rubber, as unnatural as the band’s color.
-
Jane Clayton and her dog, Mr. Snuggles, decide to have a great adventure together after they both receive the same diagnosis.
-
In this short, speculative story by V.M. Sawh, insurance is even more of a nightmare than it is IRL.
-
-
She needs me to be strong. My heart aches for her pain, the pain I have unknowingly given her.
-
Her supervisor is impressed with her ability, but she can only think of Don. She feels too much, they tell her. It’s a strength and a curse. Now comes the worst part of her job.
-
In her short story, Wiltshire-based writer Jessica Cook relays how to fall in love with someone who will inevitably leave.
-
In his prose poem, survivor Phil Scearce writes about what it’s like to live after recovering from cancer.