I left that very night. Hood up and eyes down, so no one would see it. No matter how hard I tried to remove it, it wouldn’t go away.I roamed the earth and never returned home. I even had a daughter, and named her Abel, to appease my sister, but I remained marked.
I faked everything. School was easy, my parents never checked The rest was harder, it wasn’t easy to pretend I was the best in my gymnastics class when I had never touched a baton. I acted sick for a while, to excuse my sudden failures. My parents worried, my father wanted to take me to a specialist, my mother stayed […]
‘Where’s Abel?’ my father asks. I’ve changed into his dead daughter’s clothes, dressed her carefully as if she were a porcelain doll, I have been wearing her face for my whole life, and yet he can tell us apart. ‘I’m Abel, dad.’ I respond. ‘Oh.’ That’s all he says. No questions about where I am. He doesn’t care, the thought […]
We live in the countryside, on the outskirts of a small town, surrounded by miles of fields and aspen trees. We supply the town’s market with our produce. Surprisingly, I’m in charge of taking care of the plants, the one thing I’m actually good at, not that I’m better than Abel, but farming and gardening would get in the way […]
‘You should be dead.’ I know because I was the last person to leave your funeral. I was the one you last spoke to. I was the one who killed you with that stone. *** Do you know how hard it is to be a twin? You share everything with them: Everything you own, for everything is hers, your identity, […]