CHAPTER 10 Sal’s memories of the event with the twins slowly clawed back into his consciousness, it had been pushed to the dark for some time now, but he shivered as Little Joe spoke about the church. He finally replied to his little brother’s nervous and anxious account. He tried to stay calm in his reply, though in his mind and in his heart he felt an unsurmountable fear of the past. “I think you need to just get those thoughts out of your head right now, Little Joe. You are absolutely to stay away from that church, and that’s final.” He didn’t yell, nor scream, but he felt like doing just that. “Don’t let any dreams make you think there a chance with dad, don’t you go and do something stupid for something so…fruitless.” “What do you mean fruitless, Sal? I haven’t heard anything

