Trigger Warnings
One of the few one-star ratings Burden of Breath received on Amazon came from a reader incensed
that I had not included a “trigger warning” in the story summary. The outraged reader’s
review didn’t use that label, but within weeks the term caused a lot of
controversy in the media. Some universities had mandated warnings that the literary
content in reading lists might trigger traumatic memories. My reader righted my
omission and detailed the entire story in her review. Every detail. Apparently,
the reader wasn’t too traumatized to finish the novel.
I stop reading anything that offends or bores me. How about
you?
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