The Third Twin
He held the needle aloft, a grotesque accent to the revelations happening.
I said, “Last night I heard Maya say something in her sleep. The kind of thing you’d normally pass off as senseless dream-speak. ‘The trees,’ she said”—I paused to let the cold recede, the hairs relax, the tear ducts shrink—“‘The trees, they’re full of twins.’”
I was going to add more, but the words that formulated seemed insufficient, senseless themselves. Ritter, as he stared at me, was doing no better at finding words . . . though I was sure I saw something pass across his features. Something I was by no means unfamiliar with.
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