Tagged: Family (813)

The boy looked at his parents like aliens one day. It just happened, during breakfast. They had become aliens to him. He loved sugary cereal

Parker tells his parents and his mother is thrilled; she’s longed to hear her son announce his marriage. His father downs a shot of whiskey.

He opens the blinds and watches the dust drift about the room like late autumn snow flurries. There’s no way my mom’s coming over, she says.

Jones came home bleeding from his nose and he sat on the couch and whimpered. She was reading the paper. Should I care this time? she asked.

He comes home from work and the kids are upon him. He gathers them together and says, Daddy made some big mistakes. And then he opens a beer

The children were scarred by what they saw at the farm. Four became vegetarians. Two threw up. But little Gary squeezed his teacher’s boobs.

His dad took him to the fair but didn’t buy him any cotton candy or even let him play ring toss, and he thought the place should be renamed.