Dangerous Game
"Speaking of fun, what do you think my character's signature murder method should be? Poison, strangulation, or good ol' hacking with a butcher's knife?"
"Poison." It was the only one that didn't turn my stomach when I pictured it.
"Hacking it is. Thanks, Viv. You're the best."
I sighed.
Isabella sat in her room, her pet snake Monty draped over her shoulders while she typed furiously on her laptop. Behind her, a mountain of clothes covered her bed and half-obscured the oil portrait of Monty that Sloane and I had commissioned as a joke for her birthday last year.
Most writers preferred silence and solitude, but Isabella worked best surrounded by chaos. She said growing up with four older brot