The Mourner

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Title: The Mourner
Author(s): Ginna LaCroix
Date(s): 1980
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Genre(s): gen
Fandom(s): Star Trek: TOS
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art by Merle Decker

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The Mourner was written by Ginna LaCroix and illustrated by Merle Decker. It is a Star Trek: TOS story in the zine Sun & Shadow.

Reactions and Reviews

Also unique in its own right is Ginna LaCroix's "The Mourner," a short story which presents something of a departure from this author's usual style (which is rendered very well in another selection, "Breaking Point"). "The Mourner" sensitively portrays the tragedy of loss through the innocent eyes of a young girl, a created character well fleshed-out by her author. [1]

'The Mourner' is excessively gothic, right down to the 'eyes that were dark pools of sadness.' [In it]], Kirk mourns the loss of his first officer even unto death, sparking a chain reaction in a transplanted peasant girl, not a moment to soon in my opinion. [2]

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