His son ran naked through the house. The guests stopped talking for a moment. That boy’ll be bigger than his father in a week, someone said.
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T 4841
The shoes are new. He was proud of them. Before the walk and the thing he stepped in. Just wash them, his mother says. She never understands.
T 4834
And he was floating. He held on to the chair but it took off with him. This sucks, he said. You don’t have enough gravitas, said his father.
T 4833
On Saturday morning the family comes together for the first time all week and they eat pancakes and talk about their recent bowel movements.
T 4818
The pain started and he lay down. I think I may die soon, he told his son. I knew you couldn’t handle this hot sauce, his son said, unmoved.
T 4806
The family was gathered silently and his father said, She’s like an eclipse, and they knew he was remembering his wife, again, the old coot.
T 4802
He sat down and the sofa sighed. I’m cranky, he said to no one. You’re old, his daughter said. There was silence. Now I’m crankier, he said.
T 4794
The river flowed past them on its eternal search for the sea. He cast his line. Then his son farted. Remember that, he said. And the son did.
T 4788
They watched their house burn, ashes snowing down on them, memory as precipitation. Their daughter cried. It was the beans, he told his wife.
T 4772
He heard news about the end of the world. He left his family and had a lot of sex on Ibiza. The world didn’t end. Until he tried to go home.
