Article Tag: mental illness

Jules Archer

[FICTION] Cyberspace Soup Some creepy dude PayPal’s me $50 to watch me eat a bowl of soup. Over the webcam, he tells me to slurp it slowly. I wait for the...

Stepy Kamei

[FICTION] All That Holds You In I’m on the X again.   Yeah, that’s what I call it now – the X. It’s only the fifth time I’ve taken it in my life, which is ...

Rachael Brooks

[FICTION] To a Girl, Age Eighteen The first time you slide your fingers down your throat, you meet hesitation. There is a gurgling in your stomach, and you do n...

Kass Haight

[CREATIVE NONFICTION] Flea I am being proposed to and all I can think of are the panic attacks I had the summer before grad school. In my mind, I am in a restro...

Simone Person

[CREATIVE NONFICTION] Counting I don’t remember when I knew I was fat and knew it was a bad thing, a misstep, a failure. Maybe it started with my father forcing...

Mary B. Sellers

Around the time you realized something was very wrong you were still young enough to treat it like an unwanted houseguest. You’d just gotten old enough for...

Jennifer Love

I have a lover and he sends me messages that no one else can see. The last I heard from him, he told me to come find him. You know where, he said. I’ve bee...