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A Shadow Creeps In
1981 That Other Me is a series that explores the immediacy and intimacy of various mental health episodes I’ve experienced throughout my life. Today in class, the teacher teaches us how to write a limerick. Five lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme. Lines 3 and 4 are shorter, and should rhyme. We’re also meant to draw a picture. As most of the other kids play around, I can only think I want to get this right. My limerick isn’t just a limerick. It’s a story – a man tries to cross a stream but falls into a pool of mud. The picture shows him sitting there in the mud.…
Heart Attack
2000 That Other Me is a series that explores the immediacy and intimacy of various mental health episodes I’ve experienced throughout my life. A small cramp in my left bicep. That’s unusual. I’ve never had a cramp there. It sharpens,…
Panic City
1989 That Other Me is a series that explores the immediacy and intimacy of various mental health episodes I’ve experienced throughout my life. I sit in the lobby, waiting to see my psychiatrist. Since that initial panic episode that introduced…