The term ‘scenes’ in the title should alert readers to the fact that it is not a short story in the conventional sense, but a sketch of an unfinished germ of an idea. A narrative told from the point of view of a conjoined twin, The chain of events simply comes to an abrupt halt when the two boys are captured by their uncle. The only sense of closure to the narrative is the grim revelation that the brothers remain captives twenty years later.
