Twisters

The case unraveled before him like yesterday’s eggs. He lit a cigarette and blew a smoke ring in her direction. She coughed. Yuck, she said.

He woke and felt the coming rain in his bones. I feel it in my bones, he said. She stirred. No you don’t, she said. And he left her forever.

You need me, he said. But I only needed him to protect me from more people like him. Can I say something funny? I asked. And then he hit me.

Finally, the flies descended upon them and he took the hint and he tapped her arm and she said, You get it, and he got up to get the smokes.