The Double

We do not choose our parents, or the debt they’ve bequeathed us. But we can, if we choose, create something better and finer from the ash heap of the past

Though our lives are an accident of birth, our fate is in our hands.

the fire had been ruled as arson.

arms crossed over his chest in an attitude of supplication

to annihilate my very soul.

worship a different god

to embody his malevolent spirit

to endure a course of treatment

laughing at his gullibility

The deception was outrageous.