Twisters

The request came from The School for the Prevention of Awkward Moments. And he wrote them a check for a hundred dollars. It just felt right.

She reached for his hand and took it and then he fell as if he’d been shot and he apologized and said, Sometimes the world moves too quickly.

After he punched the macaques at the zoo, and the notoriety had worn off, his big idea was tie-dye t-shirts. That’s when she gave up on him.

The shoes were going to come between them. She saw this and she steeled herself for it. Not in those, he said. But she didn’t take them off.

The self-help guru was big into giving hugs. This silly idea was the basis of his empire. I didn’t feel it though. I kneed him in the gonads.