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Help! Somebody help me! I'm shrinking and I'm not even red!
Help!
And nobody listens
The artist mother and the smart boy continue their task of transforming him
Now the little giant is red and blue
Half bad, half good. Half angry, half calm
The smart-mother and the artist-boy continue their work of painting the
new little giant red and blue
The Giant of Fury is sneaking out
It no longer fits in that room. It no longer fits in those lives
At the door, already saying goodbye, he looks back and takes with him an
image that bothers him. He sees the boy-artist calmly walking around the
room, talking to his smart-mother, deciding together on the last
brushstrokes.
The image has changed. And the Giant of Fury, sad, decides to leave in
search of another place to live.
“The Fired Ghost of Fury, made by an artist upon my request.”
When presented with the new image, this time taken by me, the mother laughs at
The Bad and the Good Ghosts: A Story of Reauthoring in Narrative Therapy with Children
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, February 2024 Release, www.journalnft.com, p. 2446.