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A Play in One Short Act Cast of Characters MYSELF: 60-year-old woman with dislocated kneecap MY BODY: Gruff offstage voice PlaceMyself’s home TimeDaytime Setting: Living room with couch and coffee table At Rise: Myself sits on couch, leg on coffee table, ice pack on knee. MY BODY (angrily) Happy now? Is this how you wanted…
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The blinding sunshine and a cloudless sky make every yellow-green bush, mono-hued house, and dappled stray cat in the neighborhood look shiny. Freshly-mown grass mixed with dirt and hot asphalt perfume the air. Dead leaves litter the sidewalk with dewdrops reflecting sunlight like glitter. In the shadow of a big oak tree, a crow hops…
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We are excited to announce that we will begin publishing poetry, essays, art and more as complete digital issues with a dedicated theme.
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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…
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Unfortunately, my brick wall has become smaller over the years, or less high, with bricks softer in their sable paper texture, more dissolved overall. Some bricks have hidden, tiny holes the size of my little finger on my left hand, where I let some people in. Some people who get in, without a little struggle…
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What can I appreciate in thismoment?The days, minutes,secondswhen I don’t tastemy own stomachin the backof my throat,bile biting with its sinistersheen of sickness.When I can SLEEP,Glory Hallelujah SweetJesus.Six hourswithout waking upso I don’t choke onmy own vomitor shit the bed.When my mind isn’t spinning faster than my fingers can typeinto the search bar:What’s wrong with meWhat’s wrong with…
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