Jim surveys the lawn and swells with a primitive pride. He has tortured something pretty out of ugliness. Tamed the wild. Buried the bodies.
Tagged: Home (473)
Twister 979
The new neighbors had porn on night and day, at incredible volumes. Finally, he knocked on their door to complain. But they didn’t own a TV.
Twister 1323
He found his mother’s toys in a box under her bed. He showed them to his babysitter and she said, oh wow. So she put him to bed. And played.
Twister 1448
And when he complained about their sex lives she said something about showering and he fought back and she said, That got a rise out of you.
Twister 1553
He came home and opened the door quietly and tiptoed in. And found his wife in bed with another man. I was doing something similar, he said.
Twister 1820
The mess in the house is apocalyptic. It sucks the life out of her. She runs around town naked. Please put me in jail, she tells the police.
Twister 1991
A fire started in the kitchen. They ran out of the bedroom naked. He sprayed the fire with water. How hot was that? he asked her, breathless
Twister 2430
Friends were coming over. Not the good ones, just the judgemental ones. And she went on a cleaning frenzy. Knowing it would never be enough.
Twister 2584
He climbs the stairs in darkness, feeling his way forward, slowly. And then he hears her sleeping. You’re late and in big trouble, she says.
Twister 2754
She’d noticed that the neighbor’s dog was friendly with her husband. A bit too friendly. Too familiar. That night, she had trouble sleeping.
