Issue #2

Pain

Table of Contents

Letter from the Editor: Caring for One Another

Letter from the Fiction Editor: Art and the Universality of Pain

3.6 Pounds | Valerie Fioravanti
Things Gone Bad | Sophie Stern
The G-Tube | Clara Frank
Going Outside | David Whitaker
Through the Window | Les Zig
Tomorrow Morning | Maria Wolfe

The Upside Down | Regina Holliday
Pain May Be Inevitable but Suffering Is Optional | Sarah Basha
Allegiance | Darrell Black
Architecture of Pain | Uday Dhar
lil peep | Jodie Filan
Golden Rope, Girl in the Galaxy,
+++and Double Up Intentions | Serena Aurora Day Himmelfarb
The Fast | Audrey Jackson

Storytelling: An Act of Hope: PSM Talks with Alex Kotlowitz

The journalist discusses his new book, An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, and the trauma that violence inflicts upon individuals and communities.

Letter from the Nonfiction Editor: Writing Through the Pain

Walking the Labyrinth | Cindy Carlson
Fall Risk | Alysia Constantine
Leaving Earth | Laura Johnsrude
Hospitals and Cemeteries | Kat Kiefer-Newman
Your Therapist Is an Addict | Jane Seskin
Traces | Janice E. Rodríguez
The Episodes | Ilze Duarte
My Empty Embrace | Rebecca Ryall

Letter from the Poetry Editor: Pain, Poetic Gifts, and the Reader’s Role

Kingdom Come and Distances | Steven Ratiner
How Ehlers Danlos Taught Me Numbers Are Insufficient | Jessica Oesterle
A Week of Arithmetical Notes Toward an Elegy
+++and One Word: Counted | Pamela Johnson Parker
Tending the Shrine, Two Years On and Takeaway | Susan Auerbach
Lynch | Maya Wahrman
Listener | Jo Ann Benda
Arthritis and Night Fright | Jill Jennings
Wabi-Sabi and Bone Dice | Emily Shearer
The Teaching Hospital and Gazelle | Elisabeth Weiss
Thin Hair and Self by Prescription | Jennifer Bradpiece
Mammogram Sampler | Maryanne Frederick
Her Perspective | Leslie Hendrickson-Baral
No Blood to Show and Barely Breathing | Rachel Larensen

Health Care Is a Sacred Mission: PSM Talks with Carl Shuker

Shuker discusses the difficulties women in healthcare face and talks about his recent novel, A Mistake.