Tagged: Family (813)

T 6122

He kisses her and thinks of his mother and the moment is ruined. She says, what’s your problem? Emus, he says. And she touches her long neck.

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T 6121

The illness comes swiftly. The doctor fails in the art of diagnosis. His mother sits by his bedside. You didn’t see us do that, she exclaims.

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T 6109

I was so stoned. I ate some fries but they were limp and unsatisfying. You’re gaining weight, my mother said. I didn’t want to tell her why.

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T 6103

The food is this side of poison. Mom please, I say as she refills my bowl. She pats my head. Now tell me about your life insurance, she says.

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T 6092

He woke up from the coma, surrounded by his family. Who the fuck are you people? he asked. His parents laughed. Meaning the plan had failed.

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T 6090

I spilled my whiskey on my kid’s lunchbox, and the next day his teacher called and I said, I’m a bad father, and she said, When can we meet?

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T 6088

Underneath the dresser. In the corner of the room. I saw flesh. So long ago. I share this story as a lesson. What’s a magazine? my son says.

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T 6087

He hugs his son and says, Everything is about love, and the boy shows him the cut on his finger and sighs, This was about the kitchen knife.

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T 6074

She reads her book and she imagines better things and a perfect world and then she looks over at her husband and she says, You could be more.

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T 6068

She took his hand and she kissed it and she said, Do you remember all the sex we had when we were younger? and he looked at her and said, No.

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