>submit my short story to student journal using an oppressed-sounding name
>it gets kindly rejected
>submit short story to The New Yorker under pen name Zimbabwe Mabooga
>instantly get million dollar advance and six-book deal with Vintage Publishing
>oppressed-sounding
>>7805308
>oppressed-sounding
>want to use an obviously brown- or yellow-sounding name
>realize if I get super famous I won't be able to pronounce it in my numerous television interviews and will be discovered as a fraud
>>7805308
Ann L. Kuntz is that you?