First Line Fiction, Writing Prompt # 8

Still Her Twin, 10 Years Later

Siblings forever, after all

Catherine Oceano
First Line Fiction
Published in
4 min readSep 24, 2024

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She hadn’t seen her twin brother in 10 years, but there he was, sitting at her kitchen table.

He was skinnier than she remembered, but then she realized it could be because he no longer had breasts. His smile was the same and she realized her sister was still with her albeit in a slightly different body.

When Wendy decided to become Wade when he turned 22, the family went into paralysis. Well, in truth some people were paralyzed and others went into apopletic shock.

Her father and mother went into therapy, not because of Wade’s decision but because their response to him was so very different. Shockingly for them all, it was their dad who had accepted the reality before their mother.

She and Wendy had been close. Their mother had trouble reconciling that her daughter was about to become her son.

When their mother Michelle was a little girl, she was a tomboy. Climbed trees with the best of them. Got in trouble for not wanting to wear dresses and preferred to play with “boys” toys. She was the only girl in the family she grew up with and was a sore disappointment to her mother who had four boys before she arrived and desperately…

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Catherine Oceano
First Line Fiction

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