DUET SERIES

They're twins...no one believes this...once a woman argued with them adamantly, insisting that they were lying. Chloe, tall, lanky, the endearing awkwardness of preadolescence upon her; teeth in braces; hair gone curly; radiant yet self conscious...she is the youngest by nineteen minutes. Mariah, waif-like, her body struggling to grow through the veil of a rare kidney disease; alive in her boundless imagination populated with fairies and monsters; she is deceptively wise in her innocence. They are a pair; a carefully orchestrated duet; complimenting and contrasting; united in my womb; separate souls.