The Audacity.

The Audacity.

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Aubrey Hirsch
Jun 22, 2022
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I’m supposed to tell the story every time it comes into my head, so here it goes: Once when I was visiting my sister, a man burst into the house in the middle of the night and robbed us at gunpoint. 

I’m supposed to tell the story over and over and over again because a few years after the robbery, I started having panic attacks. This is a symptom of post…

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Aubrey Hirsch is the author of the newsletter GRAPHIC RAGE. Her stories, essays and comics have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vox, TIME, The Nib, Black Warrior Review, American Short Fiction and elsewhere.
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