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* GirlfriendInCanada: Stuart lies that Cassandra is moving to Canada so that no one knows that he made her up, and no one ever meets her. [[spoiler:Cassandra explains that ''she'' was the one who moved, and after her parents divorced she moved back with her mum.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Cassandra is startlingly calm about [[spoiler:letting Stuart die by touching her, even telling him beforehand that he isn't her up though he was when they were teens]].
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* RuleOfThree: Stuart hears Cassandra mentioned three times. The third time is when he meets her in person and they get some food after his art show.
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"The Thing About Cassandra" is a short story by Creator/NeilGaiman. It's featured in the collection ''Trigger Warning''.
Cassandra is the narrator Stuart Innes's first love. At least, Stuart claims she was; he made up Cassandra so that people would stop asking when he would get a girlfriend. He is baffled when a schoolmate reveals that Cassandra got in touch with him.
!! Tropes for this short story include:
* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Stuart turns into ash when he touches Cassandra, and she leaves his flat to get ready for work the next morning]].
* LackOfEmpathy: Cassandra is startlingly calm about [[spoiler:letting Stuart die by touching her, even telling him beforehand that he isn't her up though he was when they were teens]].
* MyGirlfriendInCanada: Stuart lies that Cassandra is moving to Canada so that no one knows that he made her up, and no one ever meets her. [[spoiler:Cassandra explains that ''she'' was the one who moved, and after her parents divorced she moved back with her mum.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Stuart didn't make up Cassandra; she made ''him'' up to deal with her parents moving to Canada. He's not a real person but a construct from when she was a teenager]].
* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman: Cassandra isn't that broken up about [[spoiler:letting Stuart turn into dust, though she muses that she could have left him alone and let him wander through life as a shadow of a person]].
* YankTheDogsChain: Thanks to Cassandra being paid to put on a show, Stuart sells a painting for 75,000 pounds. That's more than enough to settle him for the year, even with the gallery taking a cut. [[spoiler:Cassandra then turns him to dust by touching him, and she muses that all the money might fade]].
Cassandra is the narrator Stuart Innes's first love. At least, Stuart claims she was; he made up Cassandra so that people would stop asking when he would get a girlfriend. He is baffled when a schoolmate reveals that Cassandra got in touch with him.
!! Tropes for this short story include:
* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Stuart turns into ash when he touches Cassandra, and she leaves his flat to get ready for work the next morning]].
* LackOfEmpathy: Cassandra is startlingly calm about [[spoiler:letting Stuart die by touching her, even telling him beforehand that he isn't her up though he was when they were teens]].
* MyGirlfriendInCanada: Stuart lies that Cassandra is moving to Canada so that no one knows that he made her up, and no one ever meets her. [[spoiler:Cassandra explains that ''she'' was the one who moved, and after her parents divorced she moved back with her mum.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Stuart didn't make up Cassandra; she made ''him'' up to deal with her parents moving to Canada. He's not a real person but a construct from when she was a teenager]].
* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman: Cassandra isn't that broken up about [[spoiler:letting Stuart turn into dust, though she muses that she could have left him alone and let him wander through life as a shadow of a person]].
* YankTheDogsChain: Thanks to Cassandra being paid to put on a show, Stuart sells a painting for 75,000 pounds. That's more than enough to settle him for the year, even with the gallery taking a cut. [[spoiler:Cassandra then turns him to dust by touching him, and she muses that all the money might fade]].
