Twister 3619

He embarrasses her and knows it. He’s short and smells funny. But when you shake his hand, you know. Because then you see the “magic finger”

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Twister 3618

Where’s Jerry? This was the refrain heard throughout the neighborhood. But his wife knew. That she’d made the coffee too strong that morning

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Twister 3617

They walked hand in hand on the pebble -strewn beach. He said, I could fall for you, and then he tripped on a rock and hit his head and died

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Twister 3616

The art gallery teems with people who have forgotten what it means to be human and so they crap in full view while sipping cheap chardonnay.

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Twister 3615

The rain enters day seven and the media jacks up the Biblical references, but in the Jones household it’s just an excuse for another excuse.

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Twister 3614

He stumbles through his morning coffee. She munches on a carrot. What’s up doc? she says. My mom’s a doctor, he replies. Then he feels shame

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Twister 3613

I just can’t live this way, he says. The children mill about, unconcerned. Someone announces something dreadful on TV. Me neither, she says.

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Twister 3612

She decided that was that. She started packing. Our vacation’s not over! he cried. She mimed a response. He stared blankly into his tequila.

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Twister 3611

He stared at his monitor as the code scrolled past. She came up behind him and said, I don’t know what you do, and she didn’t mean his work.

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Twister 3610

The phone rings. They both stop and watch it ring. He knows if she asks him to answer, there will be meaning attached. Pick it up, she says.

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