Introduction - Living in Between • Martha Nichols ix
Preface - Telling the Truth to Save Your Own Life • Mark Vonnegut xxi
Snapshots
Unleashed • Jane McCafferty 3
Try Ending This Way • Beth Richards 15
Hurricane Warnings • Martha Nichols 27
Descent
Night Fishing • Sara Hubbs 35
Dog College • Greg Correll 47
Beauty Marks • Rae Alexandra Underberg 57
Spring Harbor, Again • Kristine Snow Millard 71
Family
Storms of the Circus World • Lorri McDole 83
Locked Doors • Amy McVay Abbott 93
What If • Madeleine Holman 101
Paige • Drew Ciccolo 115
Arrival
Climbing the Walls • Joanna Brichetto 129
Loose Associations • Carl Bowlby 137
Plucking and Preening • Linda Saslow 147
The Longest Walk • Kim Triedman 155
Witness
Confined to Quarters • Marianne Goldsmith 167
Camera Obscura • Rebecca Schumejda 177
Sacred Touch • Julie Evans 189
Legacy
Hoard • April Newman 201
Nine Photographs • Joe Vastano 211
Not Whistling Dixie • Maureen Sullivan 221
Dispatches from the Land of Well • Jamie Passaro 231
Epilogue
Why Going Crazy Isn't Just a Good Story • Martha Nichols 243
Contributors' Notes 255
About Talking Writing 265
