Courtney Moreno

Piper Gallagher struggles to stay afloat as she copes with the horrors of working as an EMT in South Central Los Angeles, her girlfriend's battle with PTSD, and the resentment she and her brother still harbor for their long-gone mother.

In Case of Emergency

Wilfredo Pascual

Andrei Babikov

Chin-sun Lee

Issue 9, Fall 2015 features new work from Adam Klein, Andrei Babikov (translated by Michael Gluck), Chin-Sun Lee, Courtney Moreno, Diane Payne, Evan Hansen, Harry McEwan, Jen Schalliol, Jessica Murray, Joe Baumann, Morgan Christie, Roger Mensink, Satoshi Iwai, Scott Beal, Simon Perchik, Thea Swanson, Theodore Worozbyt, and Wilfredo Pascual. Cover art by D-L Alvarez. Your Impossible Voice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary project dedicated to advancing literary arts by supporting writers and poets, encouraging readership, and promoting academic literary scholarship. We publish brash and velvety new work from around the globe, as well as literary reviews, essays, and interviews.

Your Impossible Voice Journal

Your Impossible Voice

What do you do when you can’t function? After rookie EMT Piper Gallagher responds to a call outside a Los Angeles shopping mall for a man who can only tell her, “I can’t function,” the question begins to haunt her. How will Piper continue to function despite the horror she sees working in South Central, and despite her own fractured past? And how will the woman Piper loves continue to function as she experiences the aftershocks of her time spent serving in Iraq? Piper’s experiences as a rookie break her down and open her up as her genuine urge to help patients confronts the daily realities of life in the back of an ambulance and a hospital's hallways. This vivid and visceral debut is a rich study in trauma—in its causes and effects, in its methods and disguises, in its power and its pull.

Sonja Velez

Writing Walls

Diana Salier

Molly Kat

Chris Carosi

Stephen Rosenshein

Fia Maxwell

Writing without Walls is an SF Bay Area-based reading series. Each month, we bring together new writers to share their literary works. www.writingwithoutwalls.com.

Courtney Moreno

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