OVERLAND PARK, Kan., May 16 (UPI) -- Two prominent Johnson County, Kan., residents want to remove a Margaret Atwood short story from Blue Valley North High School's curriculum.
Charley Morasch, an unsuccessful candidate this year for the Blue Valley School Board, and Roger Kemp, whose daughter was murdered in 2002 after an attempted rape, want the high school library to remove a literary anthology that includes Atwood's short story titled "Rape Fantasies," the Kansas City Star reported.
The work of fiction - describing some women's sexual fantasies and what they might try to do to escape a potential rapist -- is part of an anthology entitled "Literature: Structure, Sound & Sense" that is used in the school's college-level Advanced Placement courses.
Similar challenges in the school district involving 14 novels for vulgar language and violent imagery have been unsuccessful.
