Voices on Addiction: There Were Also Girls, Women
I always thought I was too smart to be one of those girls.
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Posts Tagged: drug addict
Voices on Addiction: The Opposite of Hallelujah
When I imagine his days, the loneliness of it all makes my chest tighten.
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Voices on Addiction: Advice
What I know has taken a long time to learn, and even longer to accept.
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Voices on Addiction: Happy Birthday to Me
As long as I could feel, I was going to get high.
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Wanted/Need/Loved: Moby’s 30 Rock
It really was art imitating life imitating art imitating life.
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Voices on Addiction: Fault Lines
After, they said I was like a saint. Death changes people’s memory.
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ENOUGH: A Bonfire of Blossoms, A Pile of Ash
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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Voices on Addiction: Spontaneous Combustion
I remember hunger the way other children remember love.
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Voices on Addiction: Dead Eyes and Bob Barker Crocs
Broken people are drawn to other broken people. Comparing scars. Laying belly to belly. Two similar pieces of different puzzles.
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After the Telling
We want to protect our children from everything, even sometimes ourselves.
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