Nonfiction
by Seth Carey.
“When they suggested one more blood test, since ‘maybe you’re lucky and you just have AIDS,’ I knew that the absolute worst thing was for real.”
by Charles Barber.
“A thousand men each year sit in the black chair next to my desk. I am a mental health worker at the Bellevue Men’s Shelter.”
by Scott Temple.
“’If I can’t help your mother,’ Appleman said to me, ‘then I’ll help you build some armor against her rages.’”
by Itzhak Kronzon.
“I labored to decipher the pidgin English until I at last understood that the King of Nepal wanted me, Dr. Itzhak Kronzon of the Bronx Municipal Hospital, to come to his royal court.”
by Joan Kip.
“I am back with the ‘who’ of me, the self I left behind through the seasons of my years. The ultimate prize is this reconciliation with the original, unvarnished self.”
by Jane Kokernak.
“There is only illness, and there is no way to make that sexy. After several years as a medical device wearer, I know.”
by Anita Darcel Taylor.
“Mental anguish can be as unruly as any terminal illness. It can, unfortunately, orchestrate its own end.”
by Ha Jin.
“For many years I refused to be an exile, claiming that I am an immigrant, someone who chose to move to a new country voluntarily.”
by Evan Lyon.
“Georges, the owner of St. Gabriel’s Funeral Enterprise, is the only fat man in Lascahobas.”