Twisters

The doctor shuffled into the waiting room. He looked glum. Tired. The family stood nervously. The doctor sighed. She smelled funny, he said.

He got drunk and went into a design shop and said, I’d like to buy a vowel, and the girl at the counter said, Which one? and he got confused.

This is a story about coffee, or the lack of it, and how this led to some yawning, and how those yawns were misinterpreted. And the divorce.

The bistro is empty. There are two unhappy people at a corner table. They hold hands. And talk about the third unhappy person in their lives.

The dawn’s light surprises him and he can only imagine that maybe he’s in love, but then she calls him “tedious” and he has to look that up.