Nuri’s Reviews > The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked: The Fiction of Disability: An Anthology > Status Update

"Because for me there is no other option. I’ve got to stop doing harm. I’ve got to acknowledge the harm that I do. I’ve got to find the right way to be crippled & naked."

Jonathan Mack's story of raw honesty about a life with disability, promiscuous wandering and surrendering to the path of deliverance.

Thank you, my friend, for your story — for coming out, and allowing your soul to be received naked.

"The most important lesson I’ve learned in life, which I try to teach my son, is how important it is not to compare ourselves to others, especially if that “other” is ourself in a previous time."

— Bobbie Lurie

Winter Eyes (Loss of Vision)

"It was a matter of time before I stopped thinking in color. All I cared about was detail, and it had nothing to do with sight. The most important detail was him coming back from the woods—the clumps of snow still trapped in his beard, the drip of his runny nose, and the clammy moisture from inside his union suit underwear."

— Raymond Luczack