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COMMENTARY, ESSAY & CREATIVE NON-FICTION
A
Writer's Response to Terrorism
"'The
poets, the writers, duty is to write about
these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by
lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and
honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice
which have been the glory of his past. '"
"It was
a cool, foggy morning. I stood in half-light in front of the
mirror, with a needle and string of waxed dental floss in one
hand, gripping half a raw potato in the other. Which side to
choose? I was informed that one side signified you were a prostitute,
the other that you were gay."
Intravenous
Drip
"There was the cooling
swab of alcohol, the tapping and smoothing over the back of my hand
to find a prominent vein. The imminent foretaste of pain clarifies
the mind. I would watch my vein with a detached, clinical interest,
my dread giving way to a stoical resolve not to scream."
by Natasha Waxman
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