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Gay Mag

·Apr 6, 2020

Ritchie County Mall

When a mother loses her child every other weekend to the man who abused her — Caleb and I are driving from Morgantown to Parkersburg in West Virginia to see his parents. “Can we stop for a bathroom break?” I ask. He pulls into a 7–Eleven. “Welcome to the Ritchie County Mall,” he says. “The what?” I asked. “The Ritchie County Mall. We call it that…

Power

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Ritchie County Mall
Ritchie County Mall
Power

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Gay Mag

·Sep 10, 2019

Every Line is a Scream

Abuse, Art, and, Alchemy — My new therapist asks me why I’m seeing her. “Because I have PTSD, and I want to be normal again,” I say. She asks what the symptoms of my PTSD are. “Nightmares.” She asks how often I have nightmares. “Every night.” She asks what other symptoms I have. “Insomnia.” “Do you think you stay awake because you are…

Essay

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Every Line is a Scream
Every Line is a Scream
Essay

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Kelly Sundberg

Kelly Sundberg

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Kelly Sundberg’s memoir Goodbye, Sweet Girl was published by HarperCollins in 2018. She is currently working on a collection of lyric essays about PTSD.

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