Cassandra's Child
I wrote this for Halloween 2003, and reworked it for Halloween 2004. I've brought it back for Halloween 2005 with a little more editing.Cassandra's ChildAdrian is red-headed, freckled, and sees things...
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satisfyingly creepy...a real neck-hair-raiser.Sue******************To have great poetry there must be great audiences, --Walt Whitman
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Sue: Thank you. This is my "spooky Halloween story" - at least until I come up with another one. Before anyone asks, Adrian IS fictional, although I based the character on Down's Syndrome children I...
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To see the future and be unable to share your feelings must be full of suffering, but some times, even a bit of pent up excitement and joy. A spooky one indeed. Enjoyed.Suzanne
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Thank you. I've witnessed first-hand that struggle to communicate, as one child with this syndrome was our neighbor for a while. My wife is better able to understand him than I am, so I was...
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The struggle to communicate is hard enough...but when you see such visions, and still cannot communicate them...that must be so painful......a story that has the ring of truth about it...as all the...
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Thank you. This is based on the Cassandra myth, the oracle who was cursed with the ability to accurately foretell the future but never to be believed. I was thinking about what would cause people to...
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Fortelling disaster is not guaranteed to make anyone popular so we dont struggle to understan those who are not too articulate. WE really don't want to know do we
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I know I'd sooner not know - especially if it was as in the Greek tragedies, where the attempt to avoid the foretold fate was the very thing that brought it to pass.
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