A6, 48 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025

If linear healing narratives are meaningless in the face of chronic illness, then what is the shape of a sick story? To explore this question, Maria Hardin borrows from Bernadette Mayer’s Story (1968) and Ursula Le Guin's carrier bag theory of fiction, which posits that the shape of a narrative is not an arrow, or the masculine climax, but a bag. Mayer tossed all that she was interested into the bag of her story and then gave it form. In this book is Hardin's bag—her sick remix.

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