Turning Face in The Face of a Wildfire

I’m not clapping back anymore

Hogan Torah
7 min readApr 15, 2022

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Photo by Klaudia Ekert from Pexels

When I saw the series of Tweets I almost shit my pants. Then came the story. And it was everything I’d hoped and more.

Jessica Wildfire clapped back at me in a five minute story where she lost her composure.

It was Hanukkah in April.

I triggered the great, 100k+ follower, originator of the doom and gloom headline Jessica Wildfire with one single throw-away joke in a story.

I hate putting links at the beginning of stories, so they’re at the bottom. The stories themselves aren’t pertinent with the story I’m telling now. Read them now or later, or not at all.

If the goal of the clapback was to make me feel anything but pure joy, she failed miserably. I wanted her to respond. That’s why I’ve been arguing with Jess on Twitter. When you interact with people on Twitter they show up in your Medium feed.

I figured I’d get a sly sentence, but I got a 5 minute story. It gave me license to tear her apart and I already knew where the seams were.

I write as Hogan Torah, a character I created.

Hogan Torah was written to be a good guy but unlawful good. Use his ability to reduce anyone to shreds but only for good, not evil. My message was that…

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Hogan Torah

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