Twisters

T 6039

We argued about the difference between a boat and a ship, and whatever we’d seen in the distance disappeared, and we remained unsaved again.

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T 6038

The bed looked smaller, and I said, This is unnatural, and she said, So? and suddenly I was hanging from the ceiling and singing show tunes.

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T 6037

She tends to vegetables, humming something happy. He falls out of the hammock and she says, Are you ok? and she doesn’t wait for the answer.

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T 6036

He believed in destiny. He grew up certain of this. But when the woman of his dreams walked by, he was too busy composing the perfect tweet.

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T 6035

Her teeth went in various directions. I knew this because she ate with her mouth open. You’re charming, she gushed. But your avatar, I cried.

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T 6034

He drinks alone at the end of a hotel bar. He orders another drink, and he says, I’m a consultant, and the bartender says, This one’s on me.

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T 6033

He tells the children their bedtime story, and then his daughter asks, What’s the moral? and he says, Sometimes you grow up old and unhappy.

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T 6032

Lunch was served. She said, It’s all smooshy. And at that moment he decided he could fall in love, but then he choked on something unsmooshy.

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T 6031

They reached the top of the mountain and the fjord lay before them and she took his hand and he said, It looked a lot bigger on the Internet.

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T 6030

Don’t laugh at me, she says, and I laugh all the harder. But as the last of her clothes fall to the floor, my laughter stops. And hers begin.

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