 In December 1932, "Story" magazine published her short story "Missis Flinders," which was based on Slesinger's own experience of having an abortion, and may have been the first short story to appear in a large-circulation periodical to address the theme explicitly.Encouraged to expand the story, Slesinger incorporated it as the final chapter of her only novel, "The Unpossessed" (1934).The novel also satirizes the New York left-wing milieu in which she then lived.