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He was trudging through the park, cursing marriage, and kicking angrily at fall leaves when he caught sight of his assailant. Throwing his arms up to protect his face as he cringed back, didn't stop the knife from entering his chest. As he gasped his last seconds of life he was faced with a never ending question; why had his best friend killed him?
"Is it done?" she asked of her husband's best friend.
He nodded. "It was pathetically easy. He didn't fight, so much as accept."
"As I said, he was A Nothing."
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 3, 2009 at 9:15 AM
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She's crying because he is drunk again and she is so missing what they once had together; she is beginning to realize they will never get it back. He will head to the nearest bar, find his pusher, front a couple of lines, then do them in the bathroom to get that false sense of well-being. It's all her fault, of course. She's no fun anymore. A sad story, and all too common.
posted by
adnohr
on October 3, 2009 at 5:42 AM
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The soap opera life got to her;
She couldn't tell it from reality and began to emulate her favorite character, the Seductress. She had a fling and now she has to tell her husband or she cannot live with herself in this home one more day. The dishonesty is killing her; she now understands how far off track she's come, and is at a loss on how to get back. She doesn't love her lover, and he certainly doesn't love her...he treated her like the trash she was behaving like. Afterwards he even expressed regret that he'd been with her instead of watching the game on tv with his friends. And now she had to admit to the man that loved her most that she had traded in their marriage for something and someone so not worth it.
posted by
Darson
on October 2, 2009 at 8:35 PM
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They must be husband and wife. Probably been married for too many years. No children, because he didn't want the bother. Perhaps she reads something in the book that reminds her of the children she could have had if she had only married the boy next door (?) or the man who once asked her to dance at a discotek in the south of France. She gets back at him by affecting nightly headaches and he is totally p----off with her. Perhaps he'll just take off in his car and never, ever come back again.
The possibilies are endless.
posted by
elinjo
on October 2, 2009 at 8:02 AM
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He's heading down to the Half-a-Hill Tavern where he pours out his frustrations to the bleached-blond behind the bar. She's crying because they do not know how to communicate. I don't have answers for the other questions. It would take another pot of coffee to come up with them.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 2, 2009 at 7:29 AM
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