AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
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CHAPTER 11: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30th

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     “Or, maybe they did survive,” I   
said, just to disagree with her, “but  
they’re all pretending they can’t,     
until they take over the world.”       
     “Do you even listen to yourself   
sometimes?” Beth said with a smile,    
while rolling her eyes and shaking her 
head.                                  
     “Anyway, the second reference was 
the same general kind of story. A quick
mention of a cat that could talk and   
also cast magical spells, but nothing  
else. That one was published in 1834,  
but the legal case is the most         
interesting of them all and the        
oldest.”                               
     “You like all this research stuff,
don't you?”                            
     “I love it, but like I was saying 
earlier,” she said and gave me her sad 
look, “the legal reference was also the
saddest.                               
     “It doesn't really have anything  
to do with any case that was decided in
a court of law, at least not           
officially. It's from some Journals    
that a rich guy, from Boston, had      
donated to the University.             
     “They were all written around the 
1750s, long after the Salem Witch      
Trials, but one of them references it.”
     “What's this reference about, if  
it's not about a legal case?”          
     “It's hard to explain, but        
apparently the Journal entry references
this trial that was supposed to have   
occurred during the other Witch Trials.
     “I wrote an essay in high school  
about them and also did a lot of       
research, but this is something that   
I'd never heard of before.”            
     “What was the trial for?” I asked.
     “Apparently, a secret trial was   
conducted to convict a cat of          
witchcraft, because a half-dozen       
witnesses were willing to testify that 
the cat could talk. The cat was either 
unwilling to talk or unable to talk,   
and she was convicted and hanged.      
     “Apparently, at the last minute,  
the cat began to beg for her life, but 
they hung her anyway, and while she was
choking to death, they set her on fire.
     “How can people be so fucking     
cruel?”                                
     “There are a lot of people out    
there like me hon, but why do you keep 
saying apparently?”                    
     “Because like the German textbook,
I wasn't actually able to read the     
Journal itself. It's in French, which  
was odd, because the Librarian who     
showed me where the Journals were, also
told me that the guy who donated them, 
didn't speak a word of it. I had to    
translate it all with the same site.   



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