Wifetheif
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- Aug 18, 2012
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I have a story "The Maid's Revenge" which has been up for quite a while. It is about a neighbor's wife who takes on the job of being the neighborhood slob's maid after being laid off from her regular job. Slob objectifies her and buys her somewhat revealing maid uniforms to work in. Story ends with slob drugging, stripping, and shaving the maid. She exacts revenge but the police don't get involved. For the longest time, the responses to the story were typical but lately, I've stuck an unexpected nerve. One person wrote that they would not review the story because they knew women who had been raped and hated the fact that my heroine didn't go to the police. This was followed by a similar comment also lamenting that the police were not involved because this guy deserved to be on the sexual offenders' list. Those responses surprised me as we tend to deal in fantasy here. It also made me aware of just how realistic my scenario was. The point is -- What unexpected nerves have your stories exposed in your readers?