“Wow.” “I know right?” Candace does one of those hip bouncing side to side pirouettes, her hands flipped out like a tutu. “Did they lighten your brows too?” “Duh of course” she says. She gives me a sharp smile flashing her recently straightened, newly whitened teeth. I’m trying to reconcile Read more…
This is not the setting Gwen imagined, a nondescript hospital room. But it makes sense, these are the last hours of her mother’s life. If not with her dying breath when else would she whisper the secret she denied for a lifetime. Pastels and pressed wood. Gwen wishes there was more Read more…
Bethany hates sharing her birthday with her sister. They don’t have a great relationship and it will never change. They have little in common, and other than being twins they are completely unlike. They do not have shared psychic experiences. Bethany wishes she was an only child, which is what Read more…
Irma was as bitter as she was ugly. Neither were her fault. Irma was the unfortunate second twin. There were a lot of twins in the family; a set in every branch of the tree. Being a twin in and of itself was nothing special, but if you were the Read more…