Twisters

His laptop exploded. He walked gingerly to the bedroom, and removed his singed pants. His wife was unimpressed. This is your fault, he said.

Finally she says, Let’s step outside. And he figures he’s about to get lucky. They step outside. And she floors him with a round house left.

I don’t care that you don’t care that I don’t care that you don’t care that I don’t care that you don’t care why I lost the soap in the tub.

The sounds of monsters haunted the town day and night. The mayor stepped down and moved away because he was a coward. And the sounds stopped.

And then she hit me again, harder this time, and she waited for a reaction from me. I smiled. I deserved that, I said. And she hit me again.

She says, I got my mom’s hands and my dad’s feet, and later that night she snuggles up to him in bed. And he doesn’t fall sleep. Ever again.

He put his arm around her and they leaned into the wind and soldiered on. He made a joke about her mother. And the wind kicked up some more.