5/8/2023 0 Comments Wither destefano novel![]() ![]() ![]() I thought that as twins we would always be able to reach each other, that from far away I would still hear his voice as clearly as I heard him in the next room of our house. ![]() Before now I’d never been away from him a day in my life. We were together on our walks to work, and our voices kept each other company at night, in a dark house once filled with our parents’ presence. We were together on our walks to school, clinging to each other in case of dangers lurking in the ruins of an old building, in the shadow of an abandoned car. I’ve never been apart from my brother for so long from the time we were tod-dlers, our mother fit my hand in his and told us to stay together. It’s been so hard to keep track of the days in this mansion, when they all look the same, when I’m nothing more than Linden’s prisoner. But somewhere, in a place in my heart that’s darker than that awful basement, I worry that my corpse will become part of Housemaster Vaughn’s research, and my brother will never even know what’s happened to me.įor that, I am not sorry that Linden Ashby is off somewhere being sad because of something I said at dinner. I wonder how long it will take me to break free of this place, or at least communicate to him that I’m alive. ![]() I wonder what he’s doing now and if he’s okay. My twin, however, does not like to discuss what will happen in four years, when I’ll be dead and he’ll have five years of life in him. ![]()
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