Tagged: Home (473)

T 3953

He comes home and says, Who will love me? and his kids ignore him and his wife says, I have yoga, and he sighs and slips on something awful.

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T 3940

After the car accident he started misbehaving and one day his wife said, Who do you think you are? and this hurt him because of his amnesia.

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T 3936

He says, The more I eat the fatter I get, and she says, Um, and he bemoans this and says, Everything on TV is a lie! and she feels kinda bad

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T 3931

He’s going to go for a walk. I’m going for a walk, he announces. But there is no one home to hear him. And so the walk seems almost useless.

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T 3928

It was too much house. They both knew it. But they were dazzled by the thing. He saw possibilities. So did she. But they were different ones.

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T 3902

She came home and he was drunk and she said, My happiness is not negotiable! and he was confused. Because he honestly thought it always was.

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T 3899

He recalls the mustiness of his grandparents’ house, the smell of old sponge. And that’s why we can’t have sex, he tells the girl on his lap

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T 3896

The onions lie scattered on the floor. He’s yelling and flailing about, but the video on her laptop is too compelling. So he bleeds to death.

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T 3861

He is comforted by the familiarity of his hatreds, the warm blanket of malice. The loving embrace of confrontation. Eat your meat, dad says.

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T 3825

The children were gone finally and he came dancing into the bedroom and said, It’s sexy time, and she tried to overlook his awkward dancing.

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