Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own rules and have their own language....
7-year-old Sammy Gillanders mistakenly thinks he’s been bitten by a poisonous snake. For the rest of the afternoon he considers his slow and painful demise.
