May 24, 2018 | All Authors, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor, Kae Bucher
“Hi! Welcome to Taco Bell” she says as I walk through the door, so I nod and saunter to the counter where she waits for me to order, make a choice choose, know what to do the lights on the menu behind her, the lights on the menu bright with failure over and ...May 24, 2018 | All Authors, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor, Manda Frederick
Manda Frederick holds an M.F.A in Creative Nonfiction from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers and recently completed an MA in Literary Studies from Western Washington University. Manda has published nonfiction in the White Whale Review and Switchback...May 24, 2018 | All Authors, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor, Manda Frederick
i. Though he now occupies another coast some 3,000 miles away, I feel his shape because I feel my own, split from his, hot about the edges and quaking. ii. Beneath this bed, I feel three stories of house pushing up, and I think I see one side rising without any weight...May 24, 2018 | All Authors, Anonymous, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor
It’s been a month, and this is how I eat: I wait until I am starving, my stomach rumbling with gurgling “feed me” noises, as the world gets fuzzy and I lose focus on words, language and thoughts. Be it the conventional hours of lunchtime or dinnertime, I drag myself...May 24, 2018 | All Authors, Ashley Sapp, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor
Ashley Sapp resides in Columbia, South Carolina, with her husband and furbaby. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of South Carolina in 2010 and has written for various publications. Her work has previously appeared in Indie Chick,...May 24, 2018 | All Authors, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor, Lynn Melnick
Reprinted with permission from Landscape with Sex and Violence (YesYes Books, 2017) Lynn Melnick is the author of the poetry collections Landscape with Sex and Violence and If I Should Say I Have Hope, and the co-editor of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for...