The Optimist single work   short story   science fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 The Optimist
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The narrator has been abducted and blinded, but she cannot call for help because she is also mute. Her mysterious kidnappers take her away, along with another woman with congenital blindness, to a warehouse where the narrator faints. When she wakes up, she's held in a cylinder filled with gel. Her fate is unknown.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Acquired blindness, mutism, and blindness from birth.
    Type of character Primary and secondary.
    Point of view First person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Antipodean SF no. 90 November-December 2005 Z1230823 2005 periodical issue 2005
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