Voices on Addiction: Vessel
We both can disappear in our own ways, can’t we?
...moreWe both can disappear in our own ways, can’t we?
...moreNineteen is a book that’s by turns smart, sad, and scathing.
...more“Was it vodka?” Mama said. Her voice had cracks in it. Why ask? She knew.
...moreJames Brown and Patrick O’Neil discuss WRITING YOUR WAY TO RECOVERY.
...moreElizabeth Gonzalez James discusses her debut novel, MONA AT SEA.
...moreIn this book we are taken by all three: language, plot, character.
...moreTelevision babysat our family—our thirteen-channel set, reception via a rooftop antenna.
...moreThere was nothing in the world I had ever needed to do quite like dance.
...moreI grieve my father’s disembodiment. It is my grief inheritance.
...moreThe toll I took on people I love can’t be measured. But I want to know.
...moreIn deep grief, we rotate inside of a funhouse.
...moreFor years, decades even, my father tried to escape meth’s hold.
...moreThere are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
...moreI was fine. No one and nothing could hurt me.
...moreMelissa Faliveno discusses her debut essay collection, TOMBOYLAND.
...moreSecrecy stitched us a fraudulent reality. Denial masqueraded as hope.
...moreYou could say that I have trained for this pandemic all my life.
...moreThere is no finality to this grief. Only a series of losses, compounded.
...moreErica C. Barnett discusses her debut memoir, QUITTER.
...moreI needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
...moreI’ve known since I was a child that the world is ending. I felt it in my bones.
...moreWhen I imagine his days, the loneliness of it all makes my chest tighten.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreMy sobriety is still a mystery to me. Forty years this December.
...moreMy family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
...moreMaking it to thirty seems unimaginable, yet it happens anyway.
...moreEmily Arnason Casey discusses her debut essay collection, MADE HOLY.
...moreDrinking is the opposite of staying.
...moreFind and replace. Food for alcohol. Daughter for dad.
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