Twyla's Last Trip

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Karen Mueller Bryson. Twyla's Last Trip

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

COMING SOON

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A female hand removed a large rat from a cage filled with its squealing rat mates. She placed the creature next to a small guillotine. The animal quivered at the sight of the instrument of its ultimate demise. The rat’s head was placed on a chopping block but right before the female hand could make a final chop, an older woman’s nasal voice blared from an intercom. “Lucinda. You have an urgent call.”

As twenty-eight year old Lucinda Starr removed her hand from the tiny guillotine, the rat seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Lucinda peeled off her lab goggles and tossed them onto the counter. She tapped her student assistant, Reno Reynolds, on the shoulder, completely startling him. As he tumbled off of his lab bench, Lucinda grabbed the scrawny undergraduate’s elbow mid-air and saved him from the embarrassment of a full fall.

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“And I was just getting ready to give you a demonstration,” Lucinda said.

“I came here to talk about your mom.”

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