Lisa K. Buchanan is the author of numerous short stories and essays. A previous iStory appeared in Narrative and is available in our Library. She lives and teaches in San Francisco.

Tapestry

An iStory

by Lisa K. Buchanan

In Ovid’s tale, the virgin Philomela was raped by her effusively devoted brother-in-law, who then cut out her tongue, raped her again, and imprisoned her in a stone hut to keep her quiet—except that she, clever gal, wove a tapestry exposing the heinous breach and then sent it to the man’s wife, her sister, Procne.

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