Lydia Davis may be a name unfamiliar to gamers but she is no slouch. She got a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit medal and a Booker Prize.
Here is the story, in its entirety:
Fear
Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She cries out, “Emergency, emergency,” and one of us runs to her and holds her until her fears are calmed. We know she is making it up; nothing has really happened to her. But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has not been moved at some time to do just what she has done, and every time, it has taken all our strength, and even the strength of our friends and families too, to quiet us.
Imagine my surprise at finding here writing here, specifically, in a short story, about RPGnet, StoryGames.com, the Forge, etc. and the many other hugbox communities that caused trouble onlint because of their desire to comfort their local lunatic.
I have written these things many times myself, but nobody really took it to heart.
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