INTRODUCTION TO A DISABILITY ESSAY THAT I WILL PROBABLY NEVER FINISH:
You know, I was healthy my whole life—until I wasn’t. But I suppose that’s how all our hurts have to start: somewhere. For me, and those not unlike me, it was a cut. A slicing of sorts. A snipping through the fabric of already loosely sewn teenage reality. Until a line shred its way through as straight as a perfectly aimed arrow—and just as bloody—forming the formidable dams of my memory. Henceforth, the watercolor quiet of before —and then, of course, the irascible after. Such is the plight of the chronically ill, the burdensome, the non-contagious owners of diseased bodies. Ours is a collective: before and after.
My completed prose piece, titled “THE MOST COMMON SYMPTOM IS PAIN,” is now available to read free online and available for purchase in physical print in Contemporary Jo’s Issue VI! 🤍
















