The Cartwrights’ annual Christmas ball was held at their lavish twenty-room Texas estatethis evening. An invite-only over-the-top Texas-sized Christmas party where big hair and shoulder padsruled the dance floor. Rosa Cartwright, the virginal debutante daughter of Mr. Cartwright, glowed fromthe corner of the room with a smile that held a secret.Rosa would lose her virginity …

Like most twins, Delphine and Collette Mercier had always been close. They did everything together. Only now, in their mid-twenties, had they stopped dressing like one another to prove a point that they could think independently of one another, but still, somehow, managed to show up to any given event with similar dresses and hairstyles, …

The Past in the Future. Indeed, the most trivial of past episodes we forget, but then there are the memories where we can still feel the scrape of our knees slamming against the pavement, the grittiness of gravel and powdered bits of broken concrete as if it were happening right now, on repeat, in a …

When I agreed to let Connie stay with me, it was on condition that she wouldn’t get in my way. We both decided she would stay out of my business, and I would stay out of hers. It’s never easy for two grown women to stay together – one queen per hive and all that. …

The British Museum’s Board of Directors quietly arranges an interview with seasoned curator Dr. Sarpy after the exhibit “Unknown Woman – Tomb KV65” vanishes from the Egyptian Exhibition. The artifact, a loan from the Cairo Museum, had been on display in London for nearly twenty years — long enough to blur the line between guest …

He left me behind—my grand père, my papa. I took too long to get ready. Primping and applying foundation uselessly in the sweltering Louisiana heat. This time, he would teach me a lesson. He would finally prove that my mouth was the only thing I ran. I hurried down the hideous green shag-carpeted stairs to …