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Short sci-fi story about a seer/psychic girl who sees people who are about to die as being transparent

Science Fiction & Fantasy Asked on December 31, 2020

I’m looking for the author/title of a story that features a seer/psychic girl able to detect who is about to die soon, seeing them as transparent. The girl falls in love with a man who eventually becomes transparent, leaving the girl distraught.

Edit: Some details I remembered that may help: the story is similar to "Numbers" by Rachel Ward or "When" by Victoria Laurie. A girl who can somehow foresee when someone is about to die. Instead of seeing it in the form of numbers or specific dates, the girl in this story can tell when someone is about to die because the person becomes translucent. In the story, the girl starts seeing nearly everyone as translucent, meaning that a catastrophe is nearing which will kill a lot of people, rendering the girl depressed. When the girl sees someone who is not translucent, the girl falls in love, but one day sees him as translucent as well, meaning he’ll most certainly is about to die.

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Found it: the story is "Cassandra" by C. J. Cherryh, first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1978, October issue.

Correct answer by Sonny Z. on December 31, 2020

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