In Defense of Fearlessness

Anne Leigh Parrish
3 min readSep 23, 2023

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I think about fear a lot. Many of us do, I suspect, with a world-wide pandemic barely in the rearview mirror; a likely Republican candidate who tried to overthrow the government; and a planet that rages against us more each year. Fear can inform and protect; it can also limit and hold back.

In writing — in all art — fear has no place. You know that old saying, you have to tell it like it is. That means you have to…

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