Issue #3

Pain Continued

Table of Contents

Letter from the Editor: We Will Not Quit

Graphic Medicine: PSM Talks with MK Czerwiec

Czerwiec discusses her comics and the philosophy of graphic medicine.

Letter from the Fiction Editor: Shared Experiences

The Way We Say Goodbye | Denize Springer
Estate Sale | Charles Duffie
Tense | A.E. Santana
Beating, Like a Drum | Kathi Hansen

Review: The Pervert | A. M. Larks

“How Do We Define Healthcare?”: PSM Talks with Kimberly J. Soenen

Kimberly Soenen, creative director and curator of the photography and art exhibition “SOME PEOPLE” (Every)Body, discusses her work and the challenges in contemporary healthcare.

Letter from the Poetry Editor: Commonality and Difference

Petting Mr. Sandberg’s Cat | Gloria Heffernen
Radiograph | Mantz Yorke
Files Pending | Victoria Crawford
Frances is staring at her plate | Maya Wahrman
This Is the Floor Where No Babies Are Saved | Jill Sebacher
Healthcare for a Thousand, Please | AT Hincapie
Paper Dragons | David Porter
Vertigo | Jill Jennings
The Places Where They Fell | Sue Fagalde Lick
Dear Small Bowel | Jessica Parker
The Slip | Risa Denenberg
Now That She’s Ill | Lori Levy
The Sentence | Louis Faber
From a Hospital Bed and My Mother Briefs a Friend… | Fraser Sutherland

Letter from the Nonfiction Editor: Compassion and Pain

Cadence of Life | Carole Hemmelgarn
Nothing by Mouth | Shirley Phillips
The/rapist | Angela Sells
Searching for Answers | Annette Davis
Pluto Opposes the Sun | Patricia Fox
A Mother’s Dilemma | Mary Chris Bailey
Happy Thoughts | Rosa Jordan