This is the writer's voice, new fiction from the New Yorker. I'm Deborah

Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker. On this episode of The Writers 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

and to 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 to 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 is a content moderator at the world's most popular search engine,

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