SHEEHAN IV

CHEATERS INC. & DUMB LUCK LTD. Part 11 From The Chapter – The Dream

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Months break over us. Sheehan is dead only he eats, breathes, defecates, trapped inside some kind of being that no one will ever understand. Which makes us twins, he and I. Twins in our blood, in our double-jointed thumbs, in our jaw lines, in our slender arms and legs, in our eyes, both vacant now; in blood and sinew and spirit we’re twins, descendants of my father hating me, of his father, who killed himself to escape us all. We are father and son all right. And all of it keeps spinning out and down like a bird falling to a perfect death.