July 2011
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Chapter 4.
Helen sometimes calls Jane, “Watermelon Head.” Because Jane has a big head, is the reason. She does it a lot, in front of other people, and at school, and Jane likes it. She hates it when other people try to be a part of the joke, and she acts sour, but she secretly likes it when Helen calls her Watermelon Head.
Jane’s obsessed with Richard Feynman now, too. He was a...
Chapter 3.
Jane and Helen walked everywhere. The bus was expensive and slow, and the bus didn’t go most places. They walked home from school, a different way every day, just roaming the streets, just enjoying each other’s company. They skipped school to go to the library, some days.
Then they sat between the shelves, looking at books about UFOs. Books about female serial killers. Books about...
Chapter 2.
Neither Helen nor Jane were very good at chess. They joined the chess club anyway, though. It was Helen’s idea.
“One day,” she said. “We’re going to be criminals. And let’s face it. We’re too smart to just be regular thugs. We’re going to be criminal masterminds and criminal masterminds play chess. Or that Chinese game, Go.”
But there...
Chapter 1.
This is how Jane and Helen met.
It was the Halloween dance. They were both dressed as male FBI agents. Jane’s hair was pulled back in a pony tail. No makeup. She wore an ill-fitting suit that she borrowed from her brother. The jacket looked silly over her breasts unless it was closed, and the pants were way too long and had to be rolled up at the ankles. Her father had printed out an FBI...
