Voices on Addiction: Need and Smoke
Need had carved out specific contours in my personality, and then it returned like a curse to fit in those spaces.
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Sonya Huber
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Sonya Huber is the author of five books of nonfiction, most recently Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System, a collection about living with chronic pain, as well as Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Lava Lamp of Pain
Pain moved into my body five years ago. It wasn’t the whack of an anvil or the burn of a scraped knee. This pain sat warmly on the surface of my hands, and reached up to my elbows like evil pink evening gloves.