Aubrey Hirsch is the author of Why We Never Talk About Sugar, a short story collection, and This Will Be His Legacy, a flash fiction chapbook. Her stories essays and comics have appeared widely in The Rumpus, American Short Fiction, Black Warrior Review, Vox, The Nib, The New York Times and elsewhere. You can learn more about her at aubreyhirsch.com or follow her on Twitter: @aubreyhirsch.
Amelia hates it when people call her Amy. Amy is her mother’s name, she tells them, and her grandmother’s name. And she is nothing like them. She is educated. She is a career woman. She wears pants and a leather jacket...