A car ran over his foot. He went to the hospital but nothing was broken. My foot’s swelled up real big, he told his wife. That turned her on.
Tagged: Family (813)
T 5712
The children were asleep finally and she plopped herself beside him on the couch. You look tired, he said. You smell like fear, she replied.
T 5710
They cuddled, the heat still emanating off them. I’d like you to meet my parents, she told him. And he felt cold then. Nervous. She felt it.
T 5705
First he wrote books, and then he did seminars and he got very rich telling people how to live. He’s happy. At least his third wife says so.
T 5701
She found old magazines under the bed, dusty glossies full of women with giant hair. And she realized then she missed her dad. And shivered.
T 5663
I want to say something funny here, to cut the ugly tension. But I have always been devoid of humor. I blame my mother. That makes me laugh.
T 5651
You’re being prickly, she said, and he ignored her, but their kid thought it hilarious and she said, Not like that, but the kid didn’t care.
T 5640
My father was a butcher. My mother was a vegetarian. I’m so tired of that excuse, my wife complains. Even though it’s the only excuse I have.
T 5638
You want to call the kids fuckhead but you were one too, once, maybe you still are, plus you once said it was a bad word despite its beauty.
T 5635
He posts photos of smokestacks and achieves internet fame. His dad stops loving him. Because jealousy isn’t old or new media. It is eternal.
