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Category: Mental Health

Zebras (Story by Risa Peris)

September 7, 2020 Brian Coyle

I am a world-renowned diagnostician. I’m the person doctors call when patients are sick, remain sick, and fall on the…

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Posted in: Fiction, Mental Health

The Man from Ireland (Story by Risa Peris)

May 3, 2020 Brian Coyle 1 Comment

What a quiet and dark man. He was like something in the night sky that could barely be seen and…

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Posted in: Fiction, Mental Health, Social Issues

This is My Plague Year (Story by Risa Peris)

April 3, 2020 Brian Coyle

At first, it was the rats that died. They cluttered the streets and alleys like putrid feces with fur. Their…

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Posted in: End of the World, Fiction, Horror, Mental Health, Social Issues

Vials and Powder (Story by Risa Peris)

March 9, 2020 periswriter

New York City, 1901 From the Lab Book of Dr. Cranston Hastings, General Surgeon at Merriam Hospital. February 2 A…

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Posted in: Fiction, Mental Health

The Dog (Story by Risa Peris)

January 31, 2020 Brian Coyle

There was a black and white messy dog in the street licking his dick. Occasionally, his tail would thump on…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction, Mental Health
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Out of Tune (story by Mary E Sullivan)

January 23, 2020 coylewriter

i have a flute.  the “E” key is flat.  sort of like my life.  when the world was flat.  nobody…

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Posted in: Fiction, Mental Health
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Paddy (bp coyle)

January 22, 2020 coylewriter

We both reached for our cigarettes as soon as we had passed through the hospital gates. I sat down on…

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Posted in: Fiction, Mental Health

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