He admitted he’d done it out of anger. But that didn’t make his kid feel any better. So she’d have to finish her lunch without the juicebox.
Tagged: Family (813)
T 5780
He had not seen the family in a decade. They sat down for dinner. He said, There’s a lot of fat in this sausage. His mother got up and left.
T 5770
My son stares at the half-eaten chocolate, and I can tell he’s contemplating the inanity of existence. He says, I’m going to kill my sister.
T 5765
She got in the car and said, Now what’s wrong? and he said, Your mother’s food always gives me gas, and then silence and then the inevitable.
T 5748
She brought him home to meet her family and they behaved with a studied eccentric flair and she apologized, and he said, My family’s sadder.
T 5746
He cleared his throat. They went quiet. He hesitated. I feel underappreciated, he said. So there’s a baseline? his daughter asked sincerely.
T 5740
He ran and kept running, and she got in a car and said, I’m here for you, and then she said, Why run? and he said, I don’t know how to stop.
T 5738
I’m going for a walk, he announced, and a month later he called his family from hundreds of miles away and said, These shoes are so amazing.
T 5734
Dear Diary. Today the boys made fun of me again. They’re so dumb. One of them put gum in my hair. Why do they suck so much? Is my Mom a boy?
T 5721
The lions lazed about in their cage. Make them do something, Daddy! the boy pleaded. His father imagined doing something horrific to his son.
