Our October web exclusive "Albert Arnold Gore" is from Aubrey Hirsch. Get the scoop on this story in our Q&A with Aubrey on our blog. 

DISCLAIMER: While the characters in this story share names and some biographical details with real people, the story itself is a work of fiction and as such includes details sure to be false. Other pieces from this series of counterfactual biographies have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Bluestem, and elsewhere. 

Aubrey Hirsch's stories, essays, and poems have appeared in journals like Third Coast, Hobart, the Los Angeles Review, and PANK, among others. She currently lives in Colorado Springs, where she is at work on a novel with the support of the Daehler Fellowship. You can learn more about her at www.aubreyhirsch.com.