Hostage (2009)
Hostage
“The next thing I knew he left the freeway. He was desperate to get to a chemist and I said I could help him. We were on the outskirts of Deer Park. I could tell because we’d just zoomed past the Deer Park Club, which loomed up out of nowhere. It was all sleek lines and blocky angles, sitting alone in a flat paddock surrounded by purple thistles and looking like a pimple on a bum. Bamps’s saying not mine. I was nine when Mum and I moved to Deer Park. We lived in a bungalow out the back of a larg...e brick house that belonged to the Angel sisters. That makes them sound like a band, but they were two old women who lived together. I figured they were sisters because they had the same last name. I called them the Angel sisters in my head, because their last name was De Angelo. Also, they used to creep about together, their black dresses covered by tight-fitting cardigans that outlined the curve of their backs. I was sure the cardigans hid tiny angel wings but I never saw the sisters without their cardigans on—even on the hottest of days—so I couldn’t test my theory.MoreLess
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