We ran away to Paris in the summer of 1874. It was warm that year, and our twenty first birthday was only a year away. Maggie and I are twins, she is a minute older and seems to have it in her head th...
Two months into the sentence, what I had been dreading finally came. He woke me, in the middle of the night. Told me to keep my mouth shut, or he'd shut it permanently. I rather liked my mouth and the...