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Voices on Addiction: Safety in a Blue Light

  • Charles G. Thompson
  • July 13, 2021
Television babysat our family—our thirteen-channel set, reception via a rooftop antenna.
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Voices on Addiction: Thief in the Night

  • Heather Stokes
  • February 16, 2021
Addiction steals your integrity. Your freedom, too.
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The Blacker the Berry, the Quicker They Shoot

  • Shamecca Harris
  • June 15, 2020
Fear is real. Pain is real. Loss is real. Suffering is real.
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Voices on Addiction: Call Us Beautiful

  • Vanessa Mártir
  • May 12, 2020
I’m saying people can be imperfect and still be remembered as beautiful.
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Voices on Addiction: Happy Birthday to Me

  • Andres Chulisi Rodriguez
  • May 21, 2019
As long as I could feel, I was going to get high.
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ENOUGH: When Water Can’t Put It Out

  • The Rumpus
  • April 16, 2019
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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House Rules: Lessons in Autofiction

  • Marie
  • April 4, 2018
You try to pass yourself off as a rock and the water just laughs. You try anyway.
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Voices on Addiction: The Honeybee

  • Michele Leavitt
  • August 7, 2017
She never stopped, a bee buzzing from flower to flower to flower, collecting all the sweetness she could.
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Voices on Addiction: Dynamite

  • Jody Kennedy
  • April 14, 2017
The world is a merry-go-round, a sawed-off shotgun, a ticker tape. There's no struggle now. There's only darkness, breathlessness, exit—
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: An Enemy to No Man but Himself

  • Jennifer Steil
  • July 12, 2015
Jennifer Steil reflects on the death and life of her ex and comes to an unexpected understanding of addiction and the limits of responsibility.
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“Lol My Thesis” Illuminates Academic Achievement

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 2, 2014
If you had to sum up your undergraduate thesis in one sentence, what would you say? That’s the question posed by the Tumblr Lol My Thesis, and the answers are…pretty…
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