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Chad Musick

An explanation to my past self

Content Note: Abuse, including CSA, slurs; let’s pretend this is fiction

Feb 19, 2021

Feb 19, 2021

I’m publishing a novel, here’s the blurb

Writing a blurb / description for a novel was surprisingly difficult. The book is a little more than 80,000 words, and 150 words are…

Sep 9, 2020

Sep 9, 2020

Subtext in that Starbucks letter

I don’t doubt the internal sincerity of Kevin Johnson, the CEO of Starbucks, but the recently released letter…

Apr 19, 2018

Apr 19, 2018

Published in
Lit Up

The Last Orphan

Between them, my mother’s parents have three surly cats, two canes, one good eye, and no living daughters. Plus me, now.

Mar 6, 2018

The Last Orphan

Mar 6, 2018

Published in
Disability Acts

When Coping Keeps You from Recovering

I can outrun the seizures. To a point.

Dec 18, 2017

When Coping Keeps You from Recovering

Dec 18, 2017

Tell me a story

“Tell me of heroes,” she sings again. Once upon a time, a mother told a story, a father held a child, a girl did her homework. “No!” She…

Nov 19, 2017

Nov 19, 2017

20 Ways to Say Shut Up

Hush hush.

Nov 9, 2017

20 Ways to Say Shut Up

Nov 9, 2017

How You Loved Your Epileptic Child

The first time I heard someone say seizure was when the sheriff came to make us leave, but didn’t care that you took the padlock from its…

Oct 18, 2017

How You Loved Your Epileptic Child

Oct 18, 2017

My Seizures will (Probably) Not Kill You: Coming Out as Disabled

Conflicted. I feel conflicted. I don’t like talking about the fact that I have seizures. People don’t want to be bothered. If I were in a…

Oct 10, 2017

Oct 10, 2017

Playing House

When I was ten we played at not being trash. We went to the public pool and paid in quarters instead of sticky nickels. We rode new bikes…

Oct 9, 2017

Playing House

Oct 9, 2017

Chad Musick

Chad Musick

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I’m in Japan. I’m a mathematician. I’m a poet. I’m disabled with a full-time job. I’m happy. I write about those things. Fiction. Non-fiction. Poems. Whatever.

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