by Zach Powers The Migraine Diaries is a novel that follows a migraineur for the year following the death of his best friend, KJ. While fully fictionalized, it draws heavily from my real life circa 2005, when I had migraines several times a week and always felt as if one were about to occur. I’ve never not had migraines as an adult, but this year-long period was far worse than anything I’ve experienced before or since. Overall, the novel is an investigation of how chronic il

by Rachel Drouillard I used to type faster than her. Now, I wouldn’t stand a chance. She types loudly too, punching away at the keys on her compact silver laptop as she asks me questions. “You’re here for neck pain, right?” “Yeah.” Technically, I suppose.  It’s the recent numbness in my hands that really brings me here. My typing speed has gone from 110 words per minute to less than 60. But my doctor seems convinced that numbness and pain are related. I have cervical spondylo

by Matt Kendrick lives in a lighthouse a hundred leagues from the sea. The house is a tower. The tower is still finding its feet. It was pulled down. It was put up. The waves here are silent. They are green. They are billowing fields that silently weep. Little boy lost never goes in those fields. His world is the house. The house is a harbour. He saw a real harbour once. He saw the batter of combers. He heard the howling of wind. He scrubbed the teary brine of the ocean from