How Did You First Hear the News?

Vivian McInerny
2 min readNov 8, 2020

History is an obscene text message

Image by Benjamin Earwicker on Freeimages.com

I was sitting at my kitchen table this morning when my text message buzzed.

“F*** YES BIDEN!”

The stars and stripes just got more, ahem, colorful.

This is not your (founding) fathers’ patriotism perhaps, but I couldn’t be more proud of my daughter. She was walking in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY…

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Vivian McInerny

Career journalist, essayist, fiction writer, and life-long spirit-quester.