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Imogen Falls single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Imogen Falls
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Imogen is a mermaid-obsessed child who never speaks except to echo what she hears. Athena, her mother, has tried many ways to make her speak, but none have worked. The doctors suggest Imogen is traumatised by her father's drowning when she was a baby.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Selective mutism and sustained echolalia.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view Third person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Famous Reporter no. 44 December 2012 Z1928948 2012 periodical issue 2012 pg. 106-110
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