Karen Stefano is the author of the short story collection The Secret Games of Words and the how-to business writing guide Before Hitting Send. Her work has appeared in Ms. Magazine, California Lawyer, Psychology Today, the South Carolina Review, Tampa Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, Epiphany, and elsewhere.
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On a summer night in 1984, nineteen-year-old UC Berkeley sophomore Karen Thomas leaves her uniformed patrol job at the University of California Police Department and walks home alone in darkness. At the threshold of her apartment a man assaults her at kni... SEE MORE