We played chess, my father and I. He had insisted even though I didn’t know the game. I’m getting old, he complained. Check mate, I replied.
Tagged: Family (813)
T 4171
My brother said, What’s mine is yours. Then I married his ex-wife. Then he stopped talking to me. Now I’m in the hospital. I still love him.
T 4154
When he witnessed his son’s birth he fainted. Years later, he read his son The Epic of Gilgamesh. At the end his son asked, Why’d you faint?
T 4135
The flashlight exposed the awful mess. He grimaced and said, We’ll go to a hotel. His wife looked at their son. It was so dark, he repeated.
T 4132
They entered the car a family. They drove many miles and ate lots of bad food. They reached their destination. They were no longer a family.
T 4121
He went for a jog and that was the first hint that he was lying. He returned an hour later. She gave him a look. And the truth was revealed.
T 4118
The newspaper lies scattered on the floor. The implied aftermath of a disagreeable moment. He shrugs. I just said your mom’s a pig, he says.
T 4117
The house smells of broken dreams. Of things never happening. What’s the opposite of this? a child asks. His father turns on the television.
T 4105
A long time ago. Always a long time ago. Never now. When we were younger. A different time. He hears this over and over. Because he said no.
T 4084
The ball thrown to his son. The miss, and the broken nose. Much commotion. Womanly outrage. A whispered promise. Male bonding over ice cream.
