Bad Twin
Chapter One
Paul Artisan did not expect to need his gun that day, but you
never knew. Sometimes things got very personal very quickly.
People reacted strangely when they were caught in squalid little
lies. Sometimes their posture drooped and their faces slackened,
and they seemed almost relieved to be found out, to have
their cheesy deceptions discovered and ended. Other times people
seemed almost proud of themselves for being recognized as
liars, cheats, adulterers, and frauds; confronted with their sins,
they couldn't quite squeeze back sick and twisted hints of smiles,
nasty twinkles in narrowed eyes. Look at me. I'm hell-bait!
But sometimes people did get violent. Like cornered animals,
they soon ran out of subtle options. If they couldn't slink away
and hide, they saw no other possibility but to stand and fight, to
the death if necessary. It was better to take the gun.
The problem was how. This was an ... read full excerpt from Bad Twin ebook
