“I was told I should not even send this story out–that people would hate me,” says Jessica Anya Blau, author of “Waiting for my Rape,” her fascinating and provocative story in the August issue of The Sun, the literary magazine based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Though The Sun doesn’t allow comments on the story on its site–we’ll have to wait for the next print issue to see if there are angry letters to the editor–the dozens of people who have posted on Jessica’s Facebook page are anything but haters. On the other hand, this is Jessica’s Facebook page.
When I read it, I thought immediately of “Cat Person,” the New Yorker story about a young woman’s uncomfortable sexual encounters with an older man that went completely viral this past winter. When I mentioned this, Jessica showed me the letter The New Yorker wrote her when they rejected the story, and apparently they thought the same:
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