Issue #7

Mental Health

Table of Contents

Letter from the Editor: The Power of Narrative in Mental Health Awareness

Announcing the winners of Please See Me’s
2021 Mental Health Awareness Writing Contest:

Nonfiction
Bipolarations | David Martinez

Fiction
The Gravity of Adrianne Lane | Rhonda Zimlich

Poetry
Grace and Grit | Emily Boshkoff

Nonfiction
Sorrow: Surviving a Son’s Suicide | Susan Wight

Fiction
When We Meet Again | Oreoluwa Oladimeji

Inexplicable| Mickey Greaves
Feeling of Impending Doom| Michael P. Moran
COVID Helped Me Grow My Garden | Catherine Kenwell
Embracing Hope Through Six-Foot Balloons| Shannon Heath Parkin
Rising Above | Martina Kontos

Letter from the Guest Fiction Editor: Picking Up the Pieces

Six Fourteen| Suh Young Choi
An Experiment in Democracy | Danny M. Hoey Jr.
Ode to the Odds | Meg Granger
One Day You’ll Be Grateful | Danielle Ramaekers
The Daily News Blues | Phyllisa Deroze
The Monster | Sarah Bricault
Mrs. Mulvaney | Pat Dotson

Letter from the Poetry Editor: The Search for Peace

monochrome | Kelsey Day
What I Should Have Said and The Body’s Expression | Lanette Sweeney
Mother and Mind | James B. Nicola
Princess of Wales | Lily Gavazov
From The Shadow (5) and Blood Clot: Coda | Andrew P. Dillon
Narrow Corner, Carpinteria Beach | Susan Eyre Coppock
City Sidewalk, Christmas Eve 2020 | Mark Blickley
Two Sides of the Same Coin | Rose Menyon Heflin

Cover Image: Bipolarations Art | David Martinez
Multiple Images | Alan Bern
Love Sorrow Self Portrait | Natalie Brescia
Prague Under the Mask | Jana Hunterova
The Suicide Ward | Husein Taherbhai
Emptiness | James Reade Venable

An Interview with Gina Frangello, Author of Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason