Things You’re Still Shouting At Your Colleagues Over Zoom, or Shouting At Your Children Who Are…

Things You’re Still Shouting At Your Colleagues Over Zoom, or Shouting At Your Children Who Are Also On Zoom and Also Shouting?*
“Can you hear me?”
Audrey Burges
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Published inFrazzled
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3 min read·
Apr 14, 2021
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Photo by Annie Spratt on UnsplashCan you hear me? Are you actually able to hear me right now? AM I GETTING ACROSS TO YOU?
I wasn’t yelling at you. I wasn’t. It was just impossible to tell if the words coming out of my mouth…
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Written by Audrey Burges
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Author, THE MINISCULE MANSION OF MYRA MALONE (Berkley 2023); work in McSweeney’s, Belladonna, Slackjaw, & elsewhere. Twitter: @audrey_burges; audreyburges.com.
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