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Helen Keller met her teacher and soon to be Svengali-like puppeteer, Anne Sullivan (nee Andra Suleiman). Sullivan was the renegade daughter of the exiled Dr. Omar Suleiman, who had attempted to revive Albert, the Prince-Consort to Queen Victoria, after he’d been dead for 10 years. The resulting chaos from this attempt drove him into exile in Germany and caused his daughter, Anne, to change her name and go into hiding in the Americas.
After enough time went by to allow memories to fade, Miss Sullivan (as she was now styled) used her father’s misbegotten skills to enslave Helen Keller and literally re-wired her deaf, dumb and blind charge into a mouthpiece for social change.
Duping not only local crowds, but heads of state and, eventually, whole countries, Sullivan used Keller as her tool to convince society that science was not mad and that the horrors that people could already roaming the streets and countryside were nothing more than a minor side-effect of “true” progress.
Eventually, it was noticed, that there were always suspicious wires running out from the bottom of Keller’s garments to the tap-board that Miss Sullivan always carried, but not until it was far too late and horrors such as Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster had wreaked their savage ways on the unsuspecting populace of the world.
The problem with this fictionlet is that it's literally TOO short. You're throwing together three separate ideas:
ReplyDelete* Omar Suleiman reviving Albert
* Enslaving Helen Keller
* Science gone mad
The first idea has almost no relation to the other two.
The combination between the second and third ideas -- Helen Keller's speeches duping countries into ignoring the horrors shambling through their cities -- is fascinating, but terribly under-developed.
You would have had a great fictionlet with just the idea of Anne Sullivan slowly taking over Helen Keller's mind, until someone notices the suspicious wires...