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Is Everyone Getting Distributed Without Me?

You’ve been snubbed

Amy Sea
4 min readJan 13, 2025
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I caught the virus. I thought I was immune. Do you have any idea how many shots I’ve gotten?

No? Me neither.

I threw away my card when the bouncers and flight attendants stopped asking me for it. My immunity card wasn’t the treasured souvenir I wanted to share with my grandchildren. It didn’t conjure that warm fuzzy feeling like shower slippers from the Four Seasons.

Time out. Let me step away from my COVID metaphor for a second and clarify what the hell I am talking about. I’m not talking about having COVID. I didn’t catch that.

I’m talking about catching distribution cooties.

I once lived in a world where I believed two out of five of my stories would be distributed. Those were the days. I was so young. So naive. You could have sold me a Bitcoin.

Listen. I hate to complain about distribution. It’s so boring. It’s like complaining about your mother on a first date. Doesn’t get you a second date, does it people? Gets you a red flag on Bumble. Crazy person alert!

Seriously, This platform isn’t a vending machine, and treating it like it is doesn’t cultivate our best work. Write because you want to write.

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Amy Sea
Amy Sea

Written by Amy Sea

100 X Top Writer, Editor— Comedian, Satirist, Humorist, Top Writer. Follow me on Substack (substack.com/@whoagirl)

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