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CALLUSES

True stories 

from an ICU

ICU stories 1:

Tenderness and brutality

Written by 

Ernesto Barbieri

Illustrated by

Jess Ruliffson

ICU stories 2:

When accidents happen

ICU stories 3:

Recovery and decline

ICU stories 4:

The sisters

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ICU stories 1:

Tenderness and brutality

ICU stories 2:

When accidents happen

ICU stories 3:

Recovery and decline

Ernesto Barbieri is a registered nurse in the Boston area whose writing has appeared in The Believer, Iowa Review, Midway Journal, Fourteen Hills, Berkeley Fiction Review, and elsewhere. A graduate of Hunter College’s MFA fiction program, he is at work on a novel and a graphic memoir.

Jess Ruliffson is a graphic journalist based in Boston. She teaches at Boston University and The Sequential Artists Workshop. See her work and connect at https://www.patreon.com/jessruliffson and www.jessruliffson.com.

ICU stories 4:

The sisters

Although the events in this story are real, names have been changed to protect identities.

Editors: Jim Dao, Marjorie Pritchard, and Heather Hopp-Bruce

  Animation and project management: Heather Hopp-Bruce 

Digital editor: Rami Abou-Sabe

Audience engagement editor: Karissa Korman 

Developer: Andrew Nguyen

Copy editor: Jessie Tremmel   

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