It’s not giving too much away here to reveal that, although Bridget is dead, she’s far from gone, and that she and her sister have a definite paranormal connection. She seems closer to her deceased sister Bridget than she ever was before, and she seems to have an affinity for recognizing emotions associated with various inanimate objects. When Abigail finally returns to school a few months later, her teacher (and the story's narrator), Mary Watkins, notices that Abigail's behavior has changed in a number of ways. Or, at least there are two twins for the first couple of pages of the story, until Bridget is burned to death and Abigail badly injured trying to rescue her. 'The Lucienne Twins' is the story of two kindergarten-aged twins, Abigail and Bridget. Something may have changed in the intervening years, however, since Petracci has definitely learned the calculus of creating a very chilling ghost story. I am a graduate of Georgia Tech, just like Leonard Petracci (albeit quite a few years earlier), which is the main reason I decided to download and read his story, 'The Lucienne Twins.' In my day, Tech was better known for training engineers rather than creative writers. On my bookshelf, bound in their own skin, I have seven.First, a disclaimer. As a literary celebrity, I was accustomed to the attention.Īnd at my trial, the judge hammered his gavel, staring into my eyes and asking the question on the mind of everyone in the room before announcing his sentence. When I was arrested my name made the headlines of each major paper in the country. Money is not important to me, but I require one form of payment- at the end of their apprenticeship, they shall write an autobiography for my personal collection, and shall pour their greatest effort into the work.Īfter they finished I bound the book for them, using their own handwritten pages, and placing each upon my bookshelf. Over the years I've taken seven students, men and women both who sought to improve their prowess. I write what others cannot, because they are limited by what I am not. But I know that it's me that's different. Others say that I see the world differently.

It is in way I write, my intuition, my capturing of notions beyond my maturity with sentences beyond my age.

The Lucienne Twins by Leo Petracci