Tagged: Love (951)

He walked into the spa and looked as if he’d sucked on a lemon. It had been his wife’s idea. What is love but shared humiliation, he thought

She thought he could lose some weight. He didn’t agree. He said he’d exercise if she got her breasts done. So to spite him she became a man.

They watched the sunset. She held his hand but they were clammy. They always were. She hated that. God, she hated so many things about him.

This one’s tremendous, he says. She holds his head as he retches. The best ever, he says. I’m hungry, she thinks. I love hangovers, he says.

He buys her perfume and roses and then gets mugged and shows up at her door with a black eye. Help, he says. Where are my flowers? she asks.

They sat in the park and flirted. He fed the pigeons and she pretended to read. Then her boyfriend showed up. And the poor birds went hungry