Through the Looking Glass: A Name That Wouldn’t Let Go

Inspector Story by Inspector Story

Episode notes

She wasn’t chasing a rabbit. She was chasing a memory. At sixteen, a girl walked into a locked ward at a crumbling Sussex asylum and refused her real name. She spoke in riddles, renamed the staff: the White Rabbit was a panicked orderly; the Queen of Hearts a severe matron; the Mad Hatter an old man who never spoke. At first, doctors corrected her. Then they accommodatedchipped cups of tea, slow walks in the garden, anything to keep the day from breaking.

Something spread. Patients began using her names, and even a few staff slipped into character. One afternoon she asked to go through the Looking Glass. They found her in the mirror room, smiling at her reflection and whispering to it.

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