Nonfiction
by Adina Talve-Goodman.
“To the left of the scar, I could see the new heart beating beneath my skin. The new double pump song of perfection replacing the one wrong beat, a single ventricle, I’d had before.”
by Julia Michie Bruckner.
“He’d looked perfect – nothing deformed or discolored, no hair out of place, both shoelaces tied. The life had been shaken out of him.”
by Eileen Cronin.
“Our heads are filled with the native rhythm of an aerobic beat and hot anticipation.”
by Alanna Weissman.
“You know what they say—never trust anything that can bleed for a week without dying.”
by Elizabeth Schultz.
“And here is another thing you do not remember: your parents telling you that you have polio, and that they are taking you to St. Margaret’s Hospital in Northridge.”
by Leslie Roberts.
“Underneath is a body cast, my new ectoskeleton, my nautilus, crawled into, where I live now.”
by Diane Cameron.
“In the 1940’s, a young Marine returns from China to a small Pennsylvania town. One year later finds the body of the mother-in-law sprawled on the kitchen floor and the body of the wife in the living room, both perforated with bullets.”
by River Adams.
“This is a temple for them, I thought. This is where the gods will be merciful or not. And I speak for the gods.”
by Sandra Opdycke.
“When sick New Yorkers failed to find a place in private institutions like New York Hospital, they turned to public hospitals like Bellevue.”