Whisper Network

by Chandler Baker

The thing we would articulate, far too late, as it turned out, was that when a building’s burning, no one just whispers, “Fire!” No one sits quietly at their desk, diligently completing their work and checking for typos while the smoke pours in overhead. No one cries for “help” softly, under their breath, so as not to disturb their neighbors.

behaving hysterically, a word which was quite literally derived from the Latin “hystericus”—or—“from the womb.”