The Woman in the Window

by A.J. Finn

As a doctor, I say that the sufferer seeks an environment she can control. Such is the clinical take. As a sufferer (and that is the word), I say that agoraphobia hasn’t ravaged my life so much as become it.

Ad astra per aspera, read the inscription. Through adversity to the stars.

“My dear girl, you cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.”

As Shaw also said, alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. Good old Shaw.