Amie Rogers

1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

   and the rooster crows…. (opens the original)

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   It's 3:12 a.m. and I'm awake.Somewhere down the hill, a street dog yips, then wails, and the whole neighborhood of Disney Dogs responds. A motorcycle sputters down the cobblestones. A confused rooster crows two hours early, and the dogs start up again. I wonder what they're saying.Every sound ricochets off stone and comes back doubled. Cactus are not good mufflers. The streets are narrow, the houses share walls, and the noise crackles off adobe and brick and keeps going. This town never closes b

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2. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

   Chronic Illness is a Bitch (opens the original)

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   I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at 19. I lost my colon at 24. Not from one accident — from years of my body quietly staging a revolt against something nobody thought to question. I wore a colostomy bag for a year and have many comical yet quite gross and ghastly stories of my bag leaking in public, burping it as it filled with gas — the most vile smell in the world is a leaking bag of undigested warm food/shit. I was bedridden and homebound for three and a half years after that. Seven ma

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