title: Potential Weapons: A Novella and Stories
author:  Jocelyn Lieu 
description: <i>Potential Weapons</i> is an enlivening and vibrant book. <i>Charles Baxter</i>
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  IN THE FIRST PLACE
  
  Everything is heavy here: his weapon, the metal and synthetic particles in the
  air, the way the light falls through them. But the two women in his
  crosshairs—sisters, he thinks—are just leaves. Papery, circling, drifting.
  They can’t find their way out from the place where they’ve fallen. As much
  pity as he can feel for them, he has already felt. Now he is nothing but the
  trigger. This c