This is The Writer's Voice, new fiction from The New Yorker.

I'm Deborah Treasman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Mary South read her story,

You Will Never Be Forgotten, from the January 27th, 2020 issue of the magazine.

South will publish her first book, The Story Collection, You Will Never Be Forgotten, in March.

Now here's Mary South.

You will never be forgotten.

The rapist is such an inspiration that he started a newsletter to share his story.

He chronicles his transformation from a nerdy duckling into the muscular entrepreneur

swan he is today. The newsletter began as a motivational tool for his annual charity

triathlon, but it has become much, much more.

It's a meditation on health, tech, spirituality, culture, and, of course, pushing through limitations and not understanding the meaning of the word no.

The woman has been following the rapist on social media since the rape, though her accounts

don't officially follow the rapist. When the woman accidentally liked a post, she achieved a new

personal best in self-hatred, just as the rapist was achieving a new personal best in his

triathlon. She imagined the rapist receiving a notification of

the like and considering it proof that the rape had been consensual.

The rapist works for the most prestigious seed fund in Silicon Valley, which is a fact the

woman finds funny in retrospect. The woman works as a content moderator at the

world's most popular search engine, in a room with no windows or ventilation system, shoulder

to shoulder with unfortunate souls. Content moderation is unending warfare. So says the woman's boss,

Shady Dave. As soon as you've defeated one set of troops,

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