The answer to “Is it just me?” is always yes. This depresses him. Because it is always just him. Though sometimes it’s his evil twin brother.
Tagged: Family (813)
T 4765
The child’s wail fills the house with sadness. What did you say? she asks her husband. I called him the super hero of being stupid, he says.
T 4762
He sat down on the toilet and his life poured out of him. Days later his wife started banging on the door. I’m tired of this shit, she cried.
T 4758
He put the photo album down. His mother sat beside him, beaming. It was such a lovely wedding, she said. We’re such an ugly family, he said.
T 4756
They sat down to dinner. His daughter said, I’m going to Thailand to study modern primitives. He thought one thing. But he said, Salt please.
T 4750
Inside my room. Behind the dresser. Underneath the week’s laundry. That’s where I hid my porn from my mom. I never told her. Now I miss her.
T 4247
The in-laws were over and he stayed in the basement and played video games with his kids and then the in-laws left and he went back upstairs.
T 4245
He’s trying to teach his son about hard work. Above them, birds fly effortlessly riding the updrafts. I’m never going to flap, the son says.
T 4231
She might deny it but the volume of the TV belies her protestations to the contrary. I’m going out, he yells. Pepperoni! his mother replies.
T 4227
Once a year they’d get together to pick over the entrails of their failed marriage. And every year they’d yell. In bed. For the same reason.
