Dark Half
Sometimes you really need to think through what you type into Google.
I was talking to my wife about a guy who failed a paternity test because his baby was actually born to his twin brother – who was still inside him. Searching for that article now, I found this:
Be careful what you search for.
What I was actually looking for was this article entitled: Guy fails paternity test because his unborn twin is the father.
This reminded me of Stephen King’s Dark Half – Tad Beaumont has an evil twin and…
OK, wait. This story is going to require me to be a bit spoilery. If you don’t want to have the story ruined, go and read it, and then come back and read this. Otherwise, read on.
So, when he was younger he started having visions of sparrows and heard them. It turned out he had a tumour in his head, which they removed. That tumour became his evil twin and tried to kill him when he brought it to life by creating an alter ego so he could write crime fiction.
Wow. That was MASSIVELY spoilery.
Shereen looked at me and said “Wow. That really would scare you, having an evil twin brought to life from being a writer.”
My response, in my best Arnie:
“It’s NOT a tumah! It’s my evil twin.”
Which led to:
“Ah! Twins! I have Danny De Vito in my head!”
Sometimes my mind works in mysterious ways.
I want to publish Finding Damo. I can’t publish it while I’m teaching. I can’t really write under a pseudonym, as everyone already associated me with Finding Damo (especially you, reading this blog).
So I’m safe for now, until I write something I have to publish under a different name.
Can you hear sparrows?
Finding Damo 