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, spider-webbing into my shoulder. I flex my arm and try to work it out, but my left arm feels uncoordinated. Once, when I was seventeen, I was sprinting in a social game of football when both my calves cramped so badly I fell to the ground. But I’d been sprinting. And I’d been at a party the previous night and had drank, so I was likely dehydrated. Those cramps had…
That Maddening Imperfection
1993 That Other Me is a series that explores the immediacy and intimacy of various mental health episodes I’ve experienced throughout my life. The tail on that letter “y” isn’t right. I’m scribbling down my characters’ names for a story I’m writing. This is part of my standard practice. I always write down the names of every character I think I might possibly use, often overcompensating and ending up with lots who are never called upon. But that’s okay. I need to intimately know the world where my story takes place, so I populate it as densely as possible. You rarely get lost because wherever you go, there’s always somebody…