Tagged: Home (473)

Twister 741

Jim surveys the lawn and swells with a primitive pride. He has tortured something pretty out of ugliness. Tamed the wild. Buried the bodies.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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