When Katie Murray was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was surprised to discover that old traumas she thought she had dealt with were reawakened within her. She turned to writing to ground herself - quite literally on the gurney going into and emerging from surgery - and make sense of all she'd been through, prior to cancer, and then during her cancer treatment. Katie is reading for us today a story she wrote for the fifth annual (2021) Body issue of Wildfire Magazine, "Naked Narrative." Trigger warning: this episode includes a discussion of miscarriage.

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