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She came downstairs and said “oh” and he took a pull of his beer and said “yup” and then the thing happened that changed their lives forever

The sun didn’t come up today. He walks to the backyard and pulls at the weeds crowding his vegetables. He picks up his gun. And he fires it.

He wakes to prepare for workday. He resents the silence of the house, the slumber that is not his. In the kitchen, he starts breaking dishes

The sun beats down relentlessly on the lawns of these suburbs. He can’t get any work done. Because the neighbor won’t stop licking popsicles

Then the sun rose and the sky turned a gorgeous shade of pink before retreating to blue, and he turned to her and said, That was inevitable.