David's: A Short Story

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David's has a dream that foreshadows a future event of his cousin Lily. Lily killed her sister Kathy when she was only seven years old. David is having a dream that foreshadows many things, one of them being death. Lily takes David to the Medeivil torture device area of the art museum. ''I walked up beside her. I looked inside the iron maiden and saw the tiny bathtub from the attic in Cambridge, filled with clear water. Kathy lay immersed in it, her arms crossed on her breast, flowers strewn about her. She was impaled on spikes, blood-less, and quite dead. Lily giggled 'It's me,' she said.'I-"' (Werlin 136). This shows that David deep down inside knows that Lily killed Kathy, but he does not want to admit to it. The other thing this dream represents

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