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Healing 2.0: The Yoga Essay

Rebecca Eckland - 0
But after six hours in a room heated to 106 degrees with 60% humidity, I emerged with a single—albeit delirious—question: If yoga has healed so many people, why can’t it heal me?

The Moment My Dad and I Traded Places

David Stern - 0
In a world of complicated relationships, ours was simple. Dad was a shopkeeper by day and family patriarch by night.

On Backgammon, Cancer, and Why Being So-So Is Good Enough

Randi Schalet - 0
“Good match,” I echoed, shaking his warm, sweaty palm. I was elated, but whoops and hollers aren’t part of the backgammon culture.

The Lost Childhood

Sarah Byck - 4
I’m glad I did that mushroom trip, I think as I sit by my father’s bed watching him die.

The Encounter

Patricia Worthen - 14
Time seemed to stand still, although I know the whole encounter couldn’t have been more than 5 minutes.

Dr. Rutstein

Bianca Bourgault - 1
I cried a lot in Rutstein’s little room and hated myself for it. I was going to die, and this doctor knew it. And she wouldn’t just let me get the cyst out and keep drinking.

She Is Her Own Best Friend

Sabrina Ambrose - 2
She is not desperate for validation. She has become her own best friend. Until the day she dies.

Leftovers

Kelly Wallace - 0
Neither of you finishes your lunch. Dad asks for a doggy bag and the waitress brings containers for the leftovers.

Biophobia

Matthew E. Henry - 2
Opening the first bin we found plates, cups, saucers, and other dishware. Not fine china, but they appeared expensive-adjacent in the way of antiques.

Drained, Inheritance: A Diptych

Barbara Krasner - 0
Dialysis is the beginning of the end. I base this opinion on my father’s experience.

Emotions Through the Screen

Carson Howard - 0
Feel the emotions through the screen and let them take you to where you’re supposed to be.

Who Else Follows You Into The Dark? (No One)

Sarah Padgett - 0
The phone's glow wouldn’t let my eyes adjust to the words on the screen, so I put on a song at low volume and just waited in the dark.
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