He watched her working in the garden, her love of dirt, the maternal labor of the soil. It moved him. But he was still leaving after dinner.
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Twister 2540
He came down for coffee and she said, What’s this? and he said, I don’t want to shave again, and it was then she knew the marriage was over.
Twister 2713
She brought home a chandelier she’d found at a yard sale. She placed it on the table and he got up to take a look. Don’t break it, she said.
Twister 2929
He steps out of the shower and she enters the room with two glasses of wine. The folly of civilization, he says. Give it a rest, she replies
Twister 3119
He shuts down his laptop and sighs. And as he wonders whether he should call his family, he stares out the hotel window and dreams of flying
Twister 3371
He surveyed his condo and felt too ancient to inhabit such a space and the irony found no purchase within his ego and he was, like, what if.
Twister 3490
His son plays X-Box singing The Final Countdown and his dad puts his book down because he knows his wife is about to say, Your kid not mine.
Twister 554
I’m staring at the wall. At the tiny cracks hiding under the layers of paint. Each stain with its own story. When is my show going to start?
Twister 715
He thought about abandoning city life and moving to the country. Perhaps starting up an organic farm. Raising chickens. He thought about it.
Twister 956
It wasn’t the most appropriate kind of housewarming gift. Nonetheless they did have a basement now. Room to store the mountain of bratwurst.
