It was a strange moment for me when I realised I was alone. I almost didn't recognise it. When you're a twin, an identical twin, you barely have the chance to discover a taste of it. From before you are born there is someone else there who shares not only your parents but also your face. As a kid you love it, the attention is endless and the joke ( Read more... )

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Title: The stickiness of memory

"You were always a slave, Justine. You just couldn't see the chains."Why does she think of that now? As she drives out of Boston and away from so many things she thinks of someone that she has spent so much time not thinking about. She thinks of a moment in her life that she has spent so much time not thinking ( Read more... )

Hi Justine ( Read more... )

She went to the funeral parlour to drop off the dress. Jenkins & Martz said the sign outside the door, but no one had seen Mr. Martz for many a year ( Read more... )

She'd gotten into Boston at the begining of the week and it had proved to be a week filled with the mundane moments of ordinary life. Finding work, finding a place to crash, working out the nearest place to get something greasy past one am ( Read more... )

He wrote her a letter before he left and when she read it she thought of his father, not Angel of course, and not the Riley man either. She thought of Daniel Holtz - that was who the letter reminded her of ( Read more... )

Do you believe in the lie? Your kid, your girlfriend, your sister, your friend - she's found dead, a couple bruises and two puncture marks to the neck. They tell you it's a mugging. Do you even think twice? There's a rational explanation to every tragedy. Take the easy answer and keep on walking. You don't want to lose more than that beautiful girl ( Read more... )

Holtz had betrayed her. Not in the way that people probably thought. Perhaps they saw his betrayal in the moment he ordered her to kill him. Asked, ordered, by then there had been no difference. In the words spoken between Holtz and Justine, she could no more refuse him than she could stop herself breathing. Correction, she could not refuse him ( Read more... )