Grace Kearney

Corpus Christi

Grace Kearney explores the link between Catholicism and medicine through three generations.

Rita Willett

City and Bliss

Rita Willett remembers the old Saint Louis City Hospital and realizes that some things really haven’t changed.

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T. M. Lawson

Tit for Tat

In this poem by T. M. Lawson, a woman visits her mother in the hospital to say goodbye.

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Robert Vander Lugt

For Hannah

In “For Hannah,” Robert Vander Lugt tries to narrate the experience of watching a child cling to life in a hospital bed and encounters difficulty in the motions and effects of prayer, in how to tell such a story in the first place.