Up, Up and Away by Judith Morrison
I’m sitting in the waiting room at my nephrologist’s office and staring at the large bulletin board beside the reception desk. The board...
The Review
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- Apr 3
- 5 min
Get Your Daily Dose of Nature: Reading ‘The Wild Remedy’ by Emma Mitchell
As warmer weather takes over here in Virginia, I feel a flutter in my chest and a tickle up my spine as the anticipation builds within...
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- Jan 1
- 2 min
Letter from the Editor
Happy New Year! The first day of a new year feels like a good time to announce the rebirth of Chronically Lit. My name is Jay, and I’m...
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- Sep 28, 2020
- 6 min
Teaching Everyone, Disabled or Not, How to Overcome Their Fears: Fundamentals of Caring
Ben Benjamin (Paul Rudd) sits for his first interview as a newly-minted caregiver and exchanges a few niceties with Elsa, the mother of...
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- Sep 21, 2020
- 5 min
Caves by Brittani Miller
Humans love to believe that it’s going to get better. Her lungs had been the first thing to go. She couldn’t venture up a flight of...
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- Sep 21, 2020
- 4 min
I Don’t Know by Lindsey Schaffer
Look both ways before crossing the street, always chew before you swallow, don’t talk to strangers. These are the first basic lessons I...
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- Sep 18, 2020
- 5 min
Questions without Answers by Wendy Kennar
During dinner recently, my ten-year-old son Ryan told me his fifth-grade class was learning about communicable diseases. It was a hard...
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- Jul 9, 2020
- 1 min
Photography by Danielle Hark
“Caged” Image description: Three bird cages filled with dolls and doll heads sit outdoors. “Stop the Bleeding” Image description: A...
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- Jul 9, 2020
- 3 min
Judy Suite (Six Visual Poems) by Chris Gavaler
Image description: The first image features one sentence, “My mother promised the women who participated in her medical studies that...
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- May 16, 2020
- 1 min
Putting Out What You Might Put Away
Putting Out What You Might Put Away A crib and changing table are quietly dismantled but all the socks are paired confetti, and the hats...
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- May 16, 2020
- 3 min
Radiate Me
On the radiation table, there is a moment when I can see the top part of my body outlined by green light. This is not the first time this...
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- May 16, 2020
- 9 min
Undiagnosed by Ashley Wylie
When I was 14, I shaved one of my eyebrows off. In an impatient attempt to become beautiful, my hand slipped. After blinking a few times...
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- Feb 20, 2020
- 1 min
Artwork by Devon Roberts
Artist statement: I have fibromyalgia, migraines, depression, anxiety, and PTSD. “Invisible” illnesses. As a transgender person with a...
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- Jan 31, 2020
- 1 min
Jellybean Comix by Grae Salisbury – Week 5
Grae Salisbury is a queer human living with vulvodynia, anxiety, a jungle of lovely house plants, and their adorable partner. Grae...
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- Jan 27, 2020
- 1 min
Panic Attack
It starts out quiet. Terror muffles my ears Words, black smudges Heartbeat faster and faster Air thinner and thinner. Thoughts as fish in...
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- Jan 24, 2020
- 1 min
Jellybean Comix by Grae Salisbury – Week 4
Grae Salisbury is a queer human living with vulvodynia, anxiety, a jungle of lovely house plants, and their adorable partner. Grae...
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- Jan 20, 2020
- 2 min
Stories of Apocalypse, or Survival Fantasies by Audrey Carroll
Advantage: I am a student of the Earth, reading old folklore about which herbs help rheumatism, investigating bird species and their...
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- Jan 17, 2020
- 1 min
Jellybean Comix by Grae Salisbury – Week 3
Grae Salisbury is a queer human living with vulvodynia, anxiety, a jungle of lovely house plants, and their adorable partner. Grae...
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- Jan 13, 2020
- 3 min
I Do Not Talk About Spoons by Rachael Dickzen
They say a person with chronic illness only has so many spoons to get through each day. Each action, each sentence, each movement takes a...
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- Jan 10, 2020
- 1 min
Jellybean Comix by Grae Salisbury – Week 2
Grae Salisbury is a queer human living with vulvodynia, anxiety, a jungle of lovely house plants, and their adorable partner. Grae...