Twenty Years Later

by Charlie Donlea

From invention is born progress From reinvention is born freedom —Anonymous

Avery knew for certain about fame was that it arrived like a colossal wave rolling toward shore. You either rode it, or let it drown you. She chose to ride it, and in spectacular fashion.

Because if there was one thing that spurred the public’s interest even more than watching the birth of a young starlet rising to fame, it was watching them fall from grace. Schadenfreude had become the new American pastime.

Love or the law, his Jamaican friends liked to say, were man’s only two problems in this world.

You know, when a loved one dies young your perception of them is placed in a time capsule. You’re only able to remember them as they were then, not as they would be today.

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26% in and I'm hooked. l can't put it down. I'm not sure how it'll become a thriller but I'm here for it