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Chad Musick

An explanation to my past self

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

6 min readFeb 19, 2021

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Chad Musick

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…

1 min readSep 9, 2020

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Chad Musick

Subtext in that Starbucks letter

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

6 min readApr 19, 2018

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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.

6 min readMar 6, 2018

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The Last Orphan

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Disability Acts

When Coping Keeps You from Recovering

I can outrun the seizures. To a point.

3 min readDec 18, 2017

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When Coping Keeps You from Recovering

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Chad Musick

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…

1 min readNov 19, 2017

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Chad Musick

20 Ways to Say Shut Up

Hush hush.

1 min readNov 9, 2017

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20 Ways to Say Shut Up

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Chad Musick

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…

2 min readOct 18, 2017

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How You Loved Your Epileptic Child

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Chad Musick

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…

7 min readOct 10, 2017

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Chad Musick

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…

2 min readOct 9, 2017

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Playing House

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Chad Musick

Chad Musick

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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