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  ...presents...                   The Healer

                                                         by Heckler



                      >>> a cDc publication.......1994 <<<

                        -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-

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     "Who needs a healing?"



     The Healer walks regally through the crowd.  After a few moments, they

press close about him, begging for his attention.



     The Healer smiles beatifically, spreading his arms as if to embrace the

surging rabble.  They mill about him: the crippled, the deformed, the

mutilated.  These he presently sends away.



     Now the ill press about him.  The consumptive, the yellow-visaged, those

who bleed from mysterious places inside.  Soon, they too are sent away.



     Late in the afternoon, those who are afflicted with more subtle diseases

come.  The man who was lost in the desert twenty years ago and has since been

unable to endure the sun's warm kiss approaches under the shelter of his

omnipresent parasol.



     The three heavily-veiled sisters who nightly relive the horror of their

father and mother's public torture and execution come upon him softly.  Knowing

the Healer's idiosyncrasies, they have put aside their daggers before coming

near.



     The young boy who does not yet know he is the Heir beseeches the Healer to

remove the omnipresent visions of swords from his eyes.



     After a time, they, too, are sent away, and the Healer arises and walks

out of the city.  The next dawn, the true faces of healing show themselves.



     The man with a mangled leg discovers a strong third leg sprouting from his

hip; he can now walk, but is shunned by all.



     Those who were once ravaged by disease breathe without effort, the better

to wail at a loved one's deathbed.



     The ones who were troubled by evil dreams awake from their first sound

sleep in years to discover their visions haunting them by day, gibbering

translucently at the edges of their vision.



     That dawn, the Healer is far away from the city, walking briskly.  He

smiles, filled with a simple joy in his good deeds.

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