illness

Journal entries and writing about a young woman's feelings about her mother's cancer.

Personal stories about the politics of living with chronic pain.

"This issue of Caboose is the story of my descent into the world of a mysterious illness I experienced, and the journey into investigating diagnosis and treatment for it. It changed me forever."

"So I started to think about being a punk and being sick ... and how you never read about sick punks in zines. The people I interviewed gave me so much hope. What they all have in common is they are dealing best they can with their diseases."

Luran writes about being hospitalized for a mysterious illness, and a bunch of other things that affect family / friends / body / community etc.

This narrative as seen through a neighbour's eye witnesses the sickly downfall of Edgar Allen Poe's wife Virginia.