OP I have been told I have fairly strong psychic abilitities. I first became aware of my—dare I say “power?—when I was 4 or 5 and Mrs. Matucci’s beloved pussy, “Chowder,” went missing.

I loved that pussy so and I cried and I cried and then sobbed hot tears until I fell asleep on the living room sofa. I had fitful dreams about little Chowder. He was meowing pitifully as if asking me (!) for help and I also heard music like the kind we used to hear driving down Rosebush Boulevard on our way to Baskin-Robbins.

When I woke up I tried to tell my mother about my dreams but she was preoccupied. Mr. Lemieux the postman had just left the house and mother was running after him with a clutch of letters she needed to give him.

I too followed and as I attempted to stutter out the details of my dream, mother shushed me and exchanged pleasantries with Mr. Lemieux.

He was nodding and jovial with my mother but he soon turned his attention to me. “Did you say music, boy? What type of music?”

“Like when we get ice cream,” I said, suddenly shy.

My mother interjected, “Oh he means the organ from Our Lady of Angels. We hear it when we go into town. It must be a very large organ.”

“Largest organ in the county,” he said. Then he turned back to me. “And this missing pussy? You say it spoke to you in your dreams?”

Well, Mr. Lemieux was part Creole and several events occurred right after this encounter, culminating in Chowder being rescued that very evening from the OLOA basement.

Word of my abilities soon spread through town and I helped many people with many things including locating lost items and suggesting loved ones were trying to reach them.

Ironically, 10 years after Chowder went missing and was found, Mrs. Matucci’s daughter also went missing and she too was found—albeit raped and murdered—in the Our Lady of Angels basement.

I just wanted to let you know, OP, that it is hard to keep secrets. You wrote “I’m not putting a date on this thread,” yet I can tell it was posted in May of this year (2023) and somebody with stronger abilities than I can likely identify the date.