The setting: A Men’s Co-Occurring Therapy Group takes place in an 80+ bed rural addiction facility, in a small, snow covered state, in the freshly painted almost-purple, “Wild Wisteria” office of the psychiatric nurse practitioner who at the moment is screaming silently in her head…
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It didn’t happen in the way that other folks will have you think: a flash of light, a giant earthquake rumbling through your bones. I simply did what I was told…
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This time, you’ve been moved to another continent as well as country, and the change in climate is making your skin reptilian. You’ve been showering with your head down lately, watching your feet slowly change from…
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Can I travel back to the womb,
back to the female zygote
of my conception
when…
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What words do you need when you’re trying not to drop the house on your back, your shoulders bruised, a hard rain falling? Neil Young was on…
Whatever Gets You Through the Night | Sally Lipton Derringer Read More »
I haven’t had a home since I was 25. Not really. That’s when my mother died. She had cancer and one day, more than a year before her death, I stood at mid-day looking out the front window…
Little House | Constance Campana Read More »
It was Penelope’s job to wait. And weave. Or so we think…
SALT: A Homecoming | Susan Maeder Read More »
I’ve never been able to decide on one thing. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking jobs, food, travel, books or movies. There has never been one of any style or genre to which I can fully commit. I want it all. Or, at least…
Tastes | Kirk McDavitt Read More »
An adapted excerpt from the as-yet-unpublished memoir:
1969: My Year with a San Francisco Drug Dealer
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