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Icy is a folklore blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. She is based in the north east of England, where she was born and raised amid the folk tales and legends of Tyneside and Northumberland. Icy is fascinated by history, cinema, art, and the occult, and griffins will always be her favourite mythical beast. She also writes dark fantasy novellas, Gothic short stories and the occasional weird Western, and she holds a PhD in Film Studies!
Strong point about the skill saving the psychic’s life only to live with the knowledge the killer will strike another. High price for ignorance. An ‘off license’ is like convenience store, right?
A great little tale about the perils of knowing peoples’ thoughts. I’d imagine psychics would try all sorts of things to gain some peace and quiet at times, even if whatever they tried was quite harmful. Drugs come to mind initially. See, you’ve set me thinking now lol.
ignorance is bliss, great thought-provoking tale!
Oh poor girl! What a sad life.
Nicely written Icy.
I think a gift like that would definitely be a double-edged sword, often it’s better not to know the inner thoughts of others.
The “untuned” radio effect would be far worse than anything one might hear, yes. Just the noisiness of the world. This depicted that beautifully.
I imagine I’d be driven to many drugs. Most of my psychics are curmudgeons for problems similar to these.
This story should cure the temptation of those who’d love to be able to listen in at all of those mental keyholes.
Great story, I’d love to see it in longer form. There’s a lot more material here!
Yes, there’s a reason psychics seem always to have dark circles under their eyes.