Tagged: Family (813)

T 5394

The cork zooms right into her eye, shortchanging the celebration. I’ll never see again! she howls. But it was just prosecco, her father says.

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T 5393

He wakes her, and she says, What’s wrong? He says, Your son is using my razor. She says, He doesn’t need to shave. And then she understands.

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T 5386

The condo has the mustiness of a long life. The smell reminds him of his grandmother before her sex change. After that it was all Old Spice.

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T 5372

He grabbed the ax from the barn and went out and chopped the rotten tree. His son cried the whole time. I’m going to have issues, he wailed.

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T 5367

His father smelled funny. It’s what he most remembered about him. He thought this as he washed his own son’s pants. About the power of genes.

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T 5366

And then he met her father. She had said she’d looked like him, and now he saw how true it was. They shook hands. You’re beautiful, he said.

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T 5248

The kids wouldn’t stop screaming, and a feeling of revulsion came over him. He marched to the bedroom, and told his wife, You were too sexy.

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T 5243

He was upset. His wife had left him for a woman with really bad skin. I’ve got the blues, he told his sister. But we’re Norwegian, she said.

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T 5314

He calls the dogs again. Sensing the futility of his station he gives up. Where are they? his wife asks. Taking lessons from you, he replies.

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T 5310

He came home from work. His son was on the XBox. His wife was hitting the booze already. My belly hurts, he said. It hurt him every evening.

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