Heather Orr
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The Watcher
Silence is subtle in the wild; forests oscillate between bustle and quiet, with moments of silence found only deep in the night, tucked between the hoots of owls. Addy felt the quiet before she consciously noted it. When she realized that she hadn’t heard any life stirring in hours, her eyes shot to the clock: 12:47am. She finished editing her photo of a grizzly cub, which had cost her hours outside in almost-freezing temperatures of a Yellowstone spring.
By Heather Orr4 years ago in Fiction
Seducing Jeff Bezos
It appeared to be innocuous, two women riding the boozy wave of Sunday brunch, spit balling ideas to save the world as if it were a school project rather than an existential crisis. One of them apparently thought it would be a good idea to record it.
By Heather Orr4 years ago in Fiction
Marriage is for Men
If you grew up in the 90s or earlier, you were sold a singular story about what it means to be a woman. That story tethered a woman’s worth and happiness to love, marriage, and family. Nearly every TV show, song, and movie told this story; we were sold this narrative from thousands of different angles, but make no mistake – it is the same story.
By Heather Orr5 years ago in Humans
The Story Giver
Ruby Driscoll woke into a day that would change her life. She had a slight sense of it; it was in the vigorous wind scattering fall leaves outside her window, a reordering. She resisted the temptation to grasp tightly at it, but she would not ignore it. Ruby opened to the day and went about the minutia of her morning, awaiting magic to reveal itself out of the mundane.
By Heather Orr5 years ago in Futurism
