An Afternoon Wedding The wedding planner skirts around him, out of the radius of his thrashing. She doesn’t have time to fight his hands away and explain that she’s not his bride.
Shedding The gentleman in the chair stood up, paid, and breezed by Avery on his way out. They shook their hair off their face and made their first eye contact with the barber.
Sucking Candy Demise The man, not yet having nothing left to live for, agrees that the next such sucking candy he consumes will be the last;
The Revolution “Cut it out. You and I both know you don’t have a revolutionary bone in your body, not to mention the fact that, as a lover, your lack of creativity is matched only by your lack of ambition.”
"Every little boy needs a dog," barks your mother That's odd, too. Your parents don't go out in winter. You pick up whatever they need.
La Neige The phantoms in the streetlight had returned to their posts. The ghost of her father hung in her mind. The 7/11 was open for snacks.