Issue #19

Heroes – Reboot

Table of Contents

Letter from the Editor: Faith in Action
by Tracy Granzyk

Announcing the winners of
Please See Me’s
2026 7th Annual Mental Health Awareness Writing Contest

Nonfiction
Someone Tells Me What to Do | Sarah Goldhagen

Fiction
Lumberton | Becca Saul

Poetry
Dawn of Berkeley | Ellen Gerneaux Woods

What’s the Craziest Thing You’ve Ever Seen? | Brenda Arthur
Buried Treasure | Margaret Ann Ackerman
Memento Mori | Carole Duff
The Stories We Edit | Toshita Kumar
What I Wanted | Joan Sosin
The Beginning and the End | Vartika Mishra
As I Go Walking Through the Web | Sarah Zhang

Two Speeds | Rory O’Sullivan
Phantom Pain | Kenneth Radu
Propped | Wendy Rasmussen
The Crucible of the Soul | Duke Stewart
The City of Gauze | Tajwar Taher

Magical Realism as a Way to Reimagine Mental Health | Adam Strassberg
Everybody is a Keeper: Building a Mental Health Community from the Ground Up | Tom & Rita Lambert

Letter from the Poetry Editor: TBD

TIME OUT | Sarah Ali
On Wolff’s Law | Magnus Briar
The World and Will | David Cameron
Two Poems | Laila Halaby
The People Who Picked Up the Phone | Holly Morgan
Acclimation | Terry S. Johnson
Two Poems | Phil Jurasinski
In the ICU | Barbara Krasner
Pining Away | Martha LaBine
Moment of Hilarity | Ann Michael
Analysis of a Mixed Episode | Michelle Raine
Vapor Trail Valkyrie | Becca Saul
Crochet | Judith Skillman
Two Poems | Frankie Soto
I live in my therapist’s notebook | Liana Warnakulasoorlya
Three Poems | Ellen Gerneaux Woods – 7th Annual Mental Health Awareness Writing Contest – Poetry Winner

Homeless With A PhD | Josette Pelatan