Sometimes "Is" Isn't

By Jim Newell

Identical twins can cause all kinds of difficulty when someone is attempting to decide who is who, not only when both are alive but also when one has died. Which one has died? How do you prove it? It gets even worse when somebody is charged with murdering the one who died. Did he kill the one that everyone thought he killed? What if he didn’t murder either one? Sometimes “is” just plain isn’t! See if you can figure out who died and who killed him in this short story by the author of the crime collection NEVER USE A CHICKEN AND OTHER STORIES.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Untreed Reads
• Release date: Jun 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781611871319

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Sometimes Is Isn’t

By Jim Newell

Copyright 2011 by Jim Newell

Cover Copyright 2011 by Dara England and Untreed Reads Publishing

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Sometimes Is Isn’t

By Jim Newell

The courtroom in the small central Tennessee town of Greenburg was beyond warm in the May heat wave. It was steaming. The two large circulating fans that hung from the ceiling lazily chased each other in circles and stirred the air around without making anything or anybody cooler. Nevertheless, the air was electric with anticipation when Court Clerk Walter Grange stood up and made his announcement.

"Order in the court. This session in the case of the State of Tennessee versus Jacky Paul Nelson, His Honour Judge Gabriel Holman presiding, will come to order.