Twisters

T 5929

And on the seventh day she said, I wish it would stop raining, and he said, Has it been so bad? and she couldn’t answer. And he broke apart.

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T 5928

They meet at a bar in an airport in a small city and she recognizes him from the Internet and she says, You don’t look so fat in your avatar.

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T 5927

She is addicted to self-help seminars. And then to cheesecake. And then to a celebrity endorsed diet. And then to another self-help seminar.

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T 5926

I considered eternity and what it implied, and she said, I am not ready for that, and I got out of bed and took that as indictment and left.

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T 5925

Your bliss is my decay, he whispers and she says, Not now, but he doesn’t know when he can say it again. Because she’s killing him. Happily.

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T 5924

He wakes and fills the coffeemaker. Soon the apartment is redolent with java. She enters the kitchen. He pours her a cup. You snore, he says.

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T 5923

The water is cool and he shivers a little but she catches him and says, Is it true? The water’s not cold, he replies. But he wishes it were.

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T 5922

We can’t really tell if I’m too young for her, or if she’s too old for me. Let’s never figure it out, she suggests. It’s very mature of her.

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T 5921

I woke out of a dream drenched in sweat, speaking an imagined form of Swedish. My wife asked me if I needed help. But I finally liked myself.

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T 5920

It was years later, after the divorce, that she realized why her son had always been short of tissue. And she couldn’t blame her ex for that.

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