Perfect Pitch by Kirie Pedersen in Burrow Press Review. "She asked if I could help out with a friend of hers. He had problems with alcohol, women, and drugs. I …
Category: Recovery
Kirie Pedersen's story "Sex for Groceries" in r.kv.r.y Quarterly Literary Journal is about survival, recovery, loss, and the healing power of love. …
In Tiger Tiger, Margaux Fragoso describes her childhood with a pedophile. Many believe she shouldn't tell her story. I vote yes. …
How did I survive the sudden death of my father, the year-long dying of my mother? …
I was at the lowest ebb, ever. My parents died. My family fractured along fault lines based on ancient grudges and current gripes. I had just arrived back in Manhattan …
In June 2010, Tobias Wong, a designer troubled by night terrors and sleep walking, hung himself. Writer Kathleen Frazier was deeply shaken. For twenty years, she too suffered from sleep …
Once, in the Victorian seaport of Port Townsend, Washington, I heard about a workshop. I figured the people who attended would be alternative types, with frizzy partly-gray hair, if women, …