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the archive(s):
issue no. 3:
Cassandra / Mike Lake
Cassandra was a small and delicate-looking girl. She appeared as if she would snap clean in half if you squeezed her too hard. She was also beautiful; probably the most beautiful girl anyone in her town had ever seen. Her beauty was the kind that turned the head of every single person she passed by. She did not ever appear to know that she was so beautiful, which made her even more so.
Cassandra had a special gift. She could sense things before they happened. This gift got her in trouble quite often when she was a small child. When she was five years old, she once told her mother that her brother Edmund was going to get hurt if he went outside to play. When Edmund came in crying later that afternoon for having fallen off his bike, Cassandra's mother accused her of having pushed him. Her brother gladly let the accusations continue to get back at her for the times when she actually did push him.
When Cassandra was sixteen years old she got a feeling worse than any she had ever had. She sensed, more strongly than anything, that the apocalypse was arriving. She told this to everybody she knew, and with such conviction that people began to doubt her sanity. Cassandra became so obsessed with spreading the word on the apocalypse that she made posters, flyers, and even told random men and women she passed on the street. She had no reason to doubt her premonitions, for they had always been accurate in the past.
One day, while Cassandra was in the library researching apocalyptic predictions of others, she came across a story in Greek mythology in which a beautiful girl was given the gift of being able to see the future. This girl's prophecies were always ignored, which eventually resulted in the Trojan War. This girl's name was also Cassandra. Cassandra knew all along that she was doomed with a name like that. She left the library and walked home. She didn't even tell pedestrians about the coming apocalypse; she simply went home and lay in her bed to wait for the end of the world.
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