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Does it Make a Sound?

If a democracy falls---

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Julia Park Tracey
Jan 22, 2025
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I couldn’t watch. I can’t stand the sound of that voice. It’s not happening. La-la-la—

So what’s happening instead? Lots of distractions. Dissociation. My inner world writ large. I sank up to my eyeballs into my novel in progress, Hannah & the Fox, and finished a reasonable first draft (hurrah for me!). I have begun on revisions. I still have ideas. It needs to be longer. Scenes play out inside my head. I see an argument that needs to happen.

And so the book gets written, and I jump off zero cliffs. Win-win!

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