This disaster is the best I could hope for, she thinks. The realization floors her. But the floor is so hideous. That’s part of the problem.
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Twister 3475
And when he didn’t look up from the magazine he was reading she said, You don’t care anymore, and then he looked at her and said, Never did.
Twister 533
The neighbors called them a sitcom family. The parents yelled ethnically. The young kids acted like grownups. And evenings meant group hugs.
Twister 711
The forest gave way to condos, concrete pillars on the land populated by the elderly and infirm. Then the meteor struck and nothing mattered
Twister 911
Years later, the neighbors found out there hadn’t been a baby. Just a severe fetish, lame excuses, much crying and a fondness for applesauce
Twister 1226
The house smelled like cheese. Everyone noticed it. Even the dog. And they searched the source of the smell. While Al quickly took a shower.
Twister 1398
The backyard was overrun with aphids and he only knew they were aphids because he’d watched a documentary on TV while lamenting his divorce.
Twister 1523
He never watched the news. So he was surprised to see a tiger in his backyard. And a helicopter overhead. Now he wished he was wearing pants
Twister 1728
The married guy’s neighbor is newly single and every day he sees a different man walk out of her place. I have a large family, she explains.
Twister 1926
The shy ballet performed by a new couple in the morning. And the discussion about toilet seats. And the horror of discovering one’s humanity
