Twisters

T 5761

The manager says, We’re not philosophers. His well-dressed underling sighs and says, I don’t love my job. The phone rings. They stare at it.

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T 5760

There was an immensity of shouting and then during an awkward lull someone asked, Who among us will be an adult now? and then they all cried.

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T 5759

I lost it, he said. He could tell she didn’t believe him. He said, I mean emotionally not physically. And she said, You don’t have emotions.

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T 5758

We are always alone, he sighs, and she reaches under the sheets and grabs him and tugs and he says, Oof, and she says, Feel that philosophy.

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T 5757

It was night now and they’d set up the tent and built a fire and they looked up at the multitude of stars and he said, I really hate camping.

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T 5756

The smell of coffee filled the house. He said, I don’t want to go to work. She said, Neither do I. And then the silence of a regular morning.

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T 5755

I would eat your love, but I won’t eat your food because it is inedible and commits treason to my insides, but tell me do you still love me?

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T 5754

Embrace the foreign. This is the message on the shirt in the window. He enters the store and he reads the label. The shirt is made overseas.

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T 5753

I sell things, he tells her. This is where they are in their conversation. The lead up. I consume things, she says. And the night progresses.

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T 5752

It was when he realized she might look better with a moustache that he knew she was not for him. And maybe he didn’t know who he was either.

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