Whisper Network

by Chandler Baker

Children turned men into heroes and mothers into lesser employees, if we didn’t play our cards right.)

We wanted to be treated like men at work for the same reason that people bought smartphones: it made life easier.

The realization that this fear was particular to us came later, that, unlike the boys with whom we played in cul-de-sacs when we were little, we would never outgrow the cautionary tales. There would forever be strangers offering us candy.