From the Archives: Voices on Addiction: None of This Is Bullshit
I was fine. No one and nothing could hurt me.
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Join NOW!I was fine. No one and nothing could hurt me.
...moreWaiting to turn forty-six is like standing in the unrelenting sunshine.
...moreAfterward, there was dead silence in the kitchen. I know because I held my breath. Even air molecules seemed to still.
...moreI pushed him so he glided through the fish, the eels, the boxed-in worlds of blues.
...moreI feel guilt in the not good enough I carry alongside the not bad enough.
...moreI wanted to feel in control of something, but I didn’t know how to say that.
...moreJon Chaiim McConnell discusses his new novella, THRUM.
...morePoems echo, rebound, and speak to one another.
...moreAvni Vyas discusses her debut poetry collection, LITTLE GOD.
...moreIt was a kind of madness to speak a language to my son that I hadn’t used in almost a decade.
...moreThe bed is squeaking again so I open my eyes.
...moreHow to live with a love so intense, a pressure so ripe?
...more“Tick tock tick tock,” Raven says. “It’s my departure or yours.”
...moreI can tell he knows exactly what kind of trouble I like.
...moreWhat did it matter? It was June and the salmonfly hatch had begun.
...more“Was it vodka?” Mama said. Her voice had cracks in it. Why ask? She knew.
...moreEmilly Prado discusses her debut essay collection, FUNERAL FOR FLACA.
...moreAnna Qu discusses her debut memoir, MADE IN CHINA.
...moreAndrea Actis discusses her debut book, GREY ALL OVER.
...morePik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, GHOST FOREST.
...moreDonika Kelly discusses her new poetry collection, THE RENUNCIATIONS.
...moreOn the far side of silence, I suspect, is joy.
...moreAshley C. Ford discusses her debut memoir, SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
...moreThere was nothing in the world I had ever needed to do quite like dance.
...moreFor what, after all, is more monstrous than a woman who wants?
...moreI grieve my father’s disembodiment. It is my grief inheritance.
...more“That’s the power of art, I think. It is transformative. It can love us all back home.”
...moreThe frame expands. The structure collapses. The pieces are still speaking.
...moreLilly Dancyger discusses her debut essay collection, NEGATIVE SPACE.
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