Twisters

T 4985

She called him and said, I’m wet, and he dropped the phone and hyperventilated, and died. She never got to tell him about the crazy weather.

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T 4984

My dearest friend. I loved you once. But I can love you no longer because you don’t love yourself. Or my little friend. Who’s not so little.

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T 4983

He doesn’t know anything. He says this with pride. A badge of honor. But the wrong girls find him sexy. And he’s tired of all the shrugging.

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T 4982

He expends so much energy hating her therapist he has none left for helping around the house. You’re therapist is so brilliant, he tells her.

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T 4981

The plane landed. Let the vacation begin! he said. Our vacation began when we left home, she said. Actually their vacation was already over.

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T 4980

He picked through his dad’s old clothes, awestruck. You’ve totally changed my life, he told him. And his dad looked at him and said, I’m gay.

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T 4979

He sits at his desk staring into his computer screen, picking his nose, diving deep, and when he finds something, it’s as if he’s found God.

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T 4978

Her career fades, she watches it vanish, mist-like, and she thinks, I’m not a guy, and she’s proud of that, she really is. Most of the time.

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T 4977

He read the email confirming the wedding date and reached for the whiskey. I saw that, she said from across the room. Ominously, he thought.

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T 4976

No one had ever come on to him before but this girl didn’t have any lips. I have minimal standards, he told his friend. Who wasn’t as picky.

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