Twisters

T 3803

Birdsong fills the air. He looks out the bedroom window and stares at the young neighbor suntanning on her new patio. His wife stirs in bed.

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T 3802

They fought, as was their wont, and they made up vigorously, as was their wont. I never get tired of fighting, he smiled. And she disagreed.

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T 3801

He explains that he can’t believe in destiny and she doesn’t understand him and he repeats himself, again, and she says, But you hit my car.

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T 3800

Another bottle of wine opened, the flirting moves to action, but this wine’s corked and that bugs him. And she loses her desire. Completely.

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T 3052

He got home and tore off his pants and opened a bag of chips and turned on the TV. He let go a tremendous amount of gas. And laughed. Alone.

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T 3051

She kept asking him questions, but his mouth was full and the food was so good and he kept piling it in and she kept talking, and he choked.

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T 3050

The dream was like an old Irish Spring commercial except all the lasses looked like his mom and he woke with a start and cried in his pillow

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T 3049

They drove home in silence, the street lights illuminating sterile stripmalls. She fiddled with her pearls. She knew he had seen everything.

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T 3048

The teacher wanted to impart the lesson of “you can have too much of a good thing” on her charges but after last night she didn’t believe it.

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T 3047

Song filled the room, voices converging into a chorus of one. Until the old guy fell over dead. And then cacophony. Except for some laughter.

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