What Lies Between Us

by John Marrs

‘I like my bananas green,’ he’d said with a grin.

I could throw up.

My phone pings again. ‘No, I haven’t,’ he replies. ‘I’m sorry.’

It's her brother.

‘Mum and Dad have always been honest with me from as far back as I can remember,’ he says. ‘So I’ve always known that I was adopted.’

'tis her kid…?

Moxydogrel was withdrawn from the worldwide market in November 1996 when it was discovered that long-term usage can bring about early menopause, and infertility in both sexes.

Actually heartbreaking.

Had she started splitting herself into two as a way of dealing with the two versions of her dad?

DID if I've ever seen it

I feel him slipping through my fingers and I don’t know how to stop it from happening.

Boy's going in the hole…

I really think he’ll appreciate the effort I’ve gone to.

No he won't ???

Am I the unreliable narrator in our story?

Is this foreshadowing? Help

Instead, I dragged him down into his new home, the basement.

And in the hole he went.

‘Because their bodies were found with chains attached to their ankles.’

Yes!!! Get this fucking bitch. Rot in prison.