Stories tagged mental-illness

Holiday

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My guy was Croatian. I sought an Italian.

Doing Time Outside (novel excerpt)

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If you are a family member or friend of a person incarcerated in a correctional facility...

Snow in the Sandias

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If there was a God he was deaf in both ears, blind in both eyes and dumb.

K

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I suggested the hospital was haunted. He thought about it. Maybe. There were a lot of electrical outlets, he said.

The Wreck of Your Life

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All there is

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You need buttered broths and to copy old writings by hand by very poor light.

Oklahoma, 1944: Howard Hughes Spends the Night in Jail

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There's a drain in the floor.

Ms. Vergust's Collage (many words, sorry)

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He envisioned Ms. Vergust slumped on the couch, between her weighty legs a beer can, Pabst sloshing onto her bathrobe, a joint down to a nub burning her lips.

Quitting

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—It’s difficult to say, he said. I have mood swings. Women don’t like that. They become upset.

He's Just Not That Into You -Part I

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“Too perfect.” my therapist intervenes in assurance, “You did enough, really. More than anyone else would.” I know the subtext is that I possibly did more than I should. My appointment is coincidentally later that day, after his goodbye letter arrives in

Catch & Release: Dog Person Depression

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Instead, I get things like, “Why can’t you find a nice man with cancer or a bum leg?”