A place for stories about chronic illness, disability, mental health, and neurodivergence.
grief
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By Susan BlankEssayist Susan Blank writes about life as a wheelchair user, getting older, and what it all means in the context of womanhood.
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By Karlen LambertKarlen Lambert enjoys working with surrealism and color in her photography and other works. She is an avid reader, writer, purple enthusiast and music lover.
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By Karlen LambertKarlen Lambert is a writer and an artist, currently studying for a BFA in 3D art at UNCC. Her work explores grief and neurodivergent presentation.
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By Diane Funston“Grandma held us together/Small and wiry/a Granny Clampett/fortunately/without a rifle.”
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By Allison Stalberg SiebensFor our seventy-fifth post at Knee Brace Press, we interviewed award-winning novelist Lillie Lainoff about POTS rep, feminist retellings, and her future writing plans in the context of her YA debut, One For All.
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By Allison Stalberg SiebensIn All Water Has Perfect Memory, debut author Nada Samih-Rotondo explores themes of intergenerational trauma, the impact of war, and the familial ties we can never escape.
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By Ericka RussellImagine a world where suicide can be simulated through virtual reality. This is the context of Ericka Russell’s short story, Suicide Simulation, and the basis for the ethics the main character must grapple with.
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By Allison Stalberg SiebensIn her forthcoming YA horror debut, Bleak Falls, author Shauna C. Highcroft writes about bodily autonomy and the horror that comes from having that stripped away.
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By April McCloud, Elise ScottIn their new poem Reason, Knee Brace alumni Elise Scott and April McCloud write about the stark contrast between the speaker’s devastation about losing their healthcare and the calm with which the robot over the phone changed the speaker’s life forever.
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By AM Rodriguez“I lose sight of my body/And I fear not recognizing/The girl looking back at me/Inside the cheap mirror in my room.”