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Reminiscent of the chilling fairy tales of Angela Carter, Pamela Scott's poem 'Monster Boy' is a powerful reminder of women's real life monsters ✨

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'She squinted through the sight at the thousands on the plain [...] Unmoving and alert, it nipped at the air with its crimped-up nose, the breeze stirring its fur like fields of harvest rye.'

A stunning short story by Josh Cook ✨

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'Stop and consider this room,
it will only take you a moment or so.
Lives have begun here, in all likelihood,
and there is a chance one or more has ended,
but they will never tell you that'

A beautiful reflection on the spaces we live in by Louis Faber ✨
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'This morning they dressed you
in the bare-backed clothes of humiliation'

A stunning poem by Kelley White ✨

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An incredible reflective essay by Miriam Edelson on her attraction to older men while growing up, praising the teachers who continued to encourage her growth while ignoring her crush, and the lessons she's learned from these experiences ✨

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'Love should never come to endless negotiation,
making beautiful arrangements of practicalities
as if they were flowers in an ugly vase'

An astounding reflection on what love is not by Buffy Aakaash ✨

https://t.co/eQr2mx1tnB

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'Life propped up on sticks:
Swinging body weight along and up and down and over,
The awkward load from toes to knee
Threatening to topple me once more'

A beautiful reflection on injury by Greg Friedman ✨

https://t.co/cGbO31jbag

[Kirstie Sivapalan @KirstieSivaP]

#RememberME

32 years

take a paracetamol and go on holiday

it's just low level inflammation

try some anti-depressants

lose weight and do some exercise

Just some of the things doctors have said to me over the years

#MEAwarenessDay

[Ellie✨ @ellieology_]

I am one of the #MillionsMissing - my life has been taken over by #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEAwarenessDay #pwME #NEISvoid

[Tara (aka. Ave) 🌟🌷 @iaveina]

#RememberME

10 years
Blood tests normal
Specialists telling me "You're fine," and discharging me
"Exercise" "Go to the gym" "You're too young to be ill"
The 'you're wasting my time' looks
Explaining myself to every new doctor
The lack of understanding

#MEAwarenessDay

[Carole Bruce @CaroleBruce17]

Lockdown restrictions are easing across the UK, but many thousands of us remain in our beds, in our homes, every day, every year.
We have #ME.
Please pause for a minute and consider this life. It can happen to anyone. ME is hidden. Find us.

#pwME #MECFS #MEAwarenessDay

[It's 8E49, Giuseppina. @123_giuseppina]

#MEAwarenessDay

Recovery?

5% of sufferers recover naturally.

The rest will remain sick, with a 25 years reduction in life expectancy. 

75% of people with ME are unable to work.

97% require two or more care needs.

25% are totally bed-bound.

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'It feels like you're shouting in a soundproof room with doctors putting you down as mentally unwell.'

An incredible essay by Ev Francis sharing her experience of living with ME ✨ Celebrate #MEAwarenessDay with us today by reading this beautiful piece!

https://t.co/BXM8gyBNji

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'They asked two questions: Do you think
you could be happy? and Do you think
anyone can?'

A beautiful, reflective poem by Frederick Pollack ✨ #WritingCommunity #Happiness

https://t.co/r26GJcDSWH

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Another incredible short story by by Gregg Shapiro here to pull on all of your heart strings ✨

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'He asks for me to start
from the beginning, to remember
when the symptoms first occurred'

A beautiful poem by J. A. Handville documenting what it feels like to talk with a counsellor or therapist ✨

https://t.co/MeZcHQqgkF

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Our #NaPoWriMo publishing has come to an end, but what a poem to end on! SM Jenkin's poem 'Our Lady of the Daffodils' is breath-taking in its complexity and we hope you enjoy this final poem before we return to our normal publishing schedule ✨ #NaPoWriMo

https://t.co/EXmckARRyV

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'Doctor, doctor! Help—
I’m living only for
others.'

Another medical inspired poem - this time by the brilliant Marie Peebles ✨

https://t.co/c8hf7lbl2U

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'My doctor owns my body,
reluctantly he lets me take it home with me,
knowing I’ll pour alcohol into it,
eat too much meat, too little fruit and veg'

A beautiful reflection on how we care (or neglect to care) for our bodies by Kieran Egan ✨

https://t.co/0dlR8X1xw7

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A sequence of five short poems by Jane Ayres taking us through a selection of strange, small moments of love ✨ #NaPoWriMo #PoetryCommunity #LovePoems

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