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Introduction
8 Amanda Leduc: Introduction
Creative Nonfiction
21 Krista Raspor: Birdlike
24 M.L. Campbell: Where Bloor Street Ends
35 Justin Ancheta: Because I wanted to fly higher than where my voice could take me
44 Jenna McClelland: Salt
66 Kelsey Andrews: Birthday Present
86 Jenna Timmons-Oikawa: Ketamine Therapy
105 Tanya Snow: Burning Brain
127 Matthew D. Del Papa: Matthew’s Rules
Fiction
13 Mel Williams: Peripheral Bodies
50 Ava Gregorian: Name in Lights
73 Shantell Powell: The Old Woman Who Became a Bear
115 Maureen Medved: The Moon and the Sun and the Sun and the Moon
136 Ellis Nye: Revolute
155 Mike McClelland: C.E.G.
Poetry
12 Rebecca Salazar: pure
34 Jason Purcell: On Changing Doses
40 Mary Keating: Still
41 Cate Freeborn: on tinder, men say they’re after a girl with “a touch of the ‘tism”
43 Britt Corcoran: frankie
49 Lisa Reynolds: Something’s Amiss
62 Jes Battis: Two Poems
67 Ysabelle Vautour: I am in short
68 Jo-Ann Sikora: My Own Gait
69 A-E Best: Two Poems
71 Carol Krause: To My Disability Income Support Worker
72 Dominik Parisien: Safe as Grandmothers
80 Lauren Turner: Two Poems
83 Yvonne Blomer: My heart is an unruly sideshow
85 Colleen Baran: Not All Pain Is Affected by Painkillers
95 Pearl Pirie: being an absentee friend due to autoimmune
96 Margo Wheaton: Stabled
99 eileen mary holowka: Two Poems
101 nancy davis viva halifax: her long neck & nervous body
102 River: Devotionals in ASL
104 Mary Trafford: Hope springs
110 Kath Healing: Fatigue Climate Report
112 Cassandra Myers: The Birth of Venus with Cane
113 Leanne Charette: Atlas Materna
121 Emma McKenna: Ode to Visionaries
122 Bri Gearhart Staton: The Connection Special
124 Nafisa A. Iqbal: Head in the Clouds, Feet in Compression Socks
125 Mikaela Hoover: Defacing the Self Portrait
126 Melissa Thorne: Limber Willows
133 Anna Veprinska: Blue Whale Heart
134 Arif Khan: Hymn of Cogs
135 Felicia Krol: Want
144 Tanis MacDonald: Complex
145 Patrick O’Reilly: Hex Wrenches
146 Michael Chang: Half Real
147 Jenna Timmons-Oikawa: Intruding Raven
148 Jessica Popeski: dreamsongs for two working feet
149 Shane Neilson: Two Poems
151 Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi: The Animal in Abel’s Head
153 Zuo You: Fissure (Translation by Yi Zhe)
154 DC Reid: I shall fear no evil in the valley of the Nitinat
Artwork
84 Ayala Kaganovitch: The Slide
114 Ayala Kaganovitch: Bent, not Broken
Reviews
164 Aviva Rubin: Hands-free, a writer drags us laughing into the weeds of loss and pain
Look Ma, No Hands, Gabrielle Drolet
166 Alastair Morrison: Love, Death, Disability, and Deer
The Reign, Shane Neilson
168 Yolande House: Medicalization is Not Care
Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain, Jaipreet Virdi
170 Matthew D. Del Papa: Curiosity Elevates This Cait
Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain, Cait Gordon
172 Morag Wehrle: Not Lost, Just Late: Women and the ADHD Awakening
Nowhere Girl, Carla Ciccone
Notes
7 Content Notes
175 Notes on Contributors
Cover
Stephanie Weirathmueller
Self-portrait in Bed, 2023
Pastel on paper
10” × 8”
Art provided by Gallery 78
