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By Barbara BrooksPoet and retired physical therapist Barbara Brooks writes a poem about the S curve of her spine, the pain that comes with it, and the peace that comes with knowing there is nothing she can do to change it.
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By Allison Stalberg SiebensAndromeda is a queer, disabled, and neurodivergent author from a small town in the Midwest. He recently graduated his undergrad program with a Classics major and loves to take the themes and stories he learns about and adapt them to the modern day.
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By Erin Coppin“you were so, so bad at it. Just terrible, hitting every everloving bump.”
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By Rita Maria Martinez“Pain sears my chest, radiates from an incision fish-netted by seventeen stitches.”
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By Allison Stalberg SiebensSamantha Picaro is the author of Limitless Roads Cafe and Recipe for Confidence. We spoke to Picaro about how her autistic identity informs her writing, the determined heroines she creates, and how she expertly balances comedy and drama.
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By Caitlin ThomsonFor people like Caitlin Thomson and her family, a societal lack of COVID precautions is even more isolating than the early stages of the pandemic.
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By Jessica CookIn her short story, Wiltshire-based writer Jessica Cook relays how to fall in love with someone who will inevitably leave.
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By Blair Martin“When I question my upbringing,/my therapist draws a peak./Tells me all religions glimpse/different angles of the same structure.”
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By Phil ScearceIn his prose poem, survivor Phil Scearce writes about what it’s like to live after recovering from cancer.