T 5917

He says, Turn off the lights so we’ll see the stars. So she does. A bird flies into the front window. I bet it saw stars, he says nervously.

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T 5916

He throws the magazine across the room. She picks it up and gives him a look. What is it now? she asks. Burnt toast is not a color, he says.

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T 5915

His last words were, Call me. She never did and didn’t hear from him again. She lived with guilt. Not knowing he just changed his cell plan.

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T 5914

They are immune to feelings now; the fighting has taken its toll. I won’t ever talk to you, he posts on her Facebook wall. She presses like.

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T 5913

He looks at the calendar. Now I have a month to live, he thinks. His mother calls and cries. He cries too. And he thinks, Less than a month.

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T 5912

He takes a sip of coffee. His belly stretches out his Sebadoh t-shirt. He watches the school girls walk by. And dreams of Pebbles Flintstone.

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T 5911

He puts on the sweater and his wife says, You became so uncool so suddenly, and he looks at himself in the mirror and says, Is this divorce?

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T 5910

I kiss her, but she tells me I think I know everything. I tell her she is wrong. She says, You see? I can’t win, I say. She knows I’m right.

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T 5909

Her insecurity made her weak but he loved her more for it. Finally, he told her he loved her. And she blushed and said, Don’t be mean to me.

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T 5908

She wakes and finds him packing a bag. What’s this? she asks. And he turns his back on her and sighs and says, You used to smell like bacon.

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