“It’s like mixing #fire and water. We cancel each other out. Unless you’re a grease fire, and then I guess I make you explode. Why do I think you’re fire and I’m water? I’ll bring that up in therapy.” “You’re thinking of oil and water.” “Shit. Breaking up is hard.” #vss365
Author Archives: Allison Ketchell
Not What I Ordered
“Hello? National Weather Service? I have a complaint. It’s the autumn equinox today and the high is 92. Not very autumnal. Could you lower it thirty or so degrees?” “Let me look at your zip code. Ah, I see. Your area opted out of winter, which is bundled with autumn.”
#vss365
Glittered
“Why are you so sparkly? Are you a vampire now?”
“I was the sub in the kindergarten class. The craft…it was like an #explosion of glitter.”
“Are you crying?”
“Yes, I’m crying! I look like a Vegas showgirl! And vampires don’t sparkle.”
#vss365
All Bets Are Off
“Stop being so #stubborn, Mitch.”
“I’m not going outside, Lisa.”
“At least the tutu is a flattering shade of pink. It really goes with your skin tone.”
“Fuck off, Lisa.”
“That’ll teach you to assume you know more about sports than a woman. Now dance your ass to work.”
#vss365
A Shadow of Himself
“It’s just a #trick of the light, Pam.”
“But we’re in the same light, Leon. There’s my shadow. Where’s yours?”
“Would you knock it off and just get me a beer?”
He hasn’t been the same since getting lost in the woods, she thought, not seeing the darkness oozing toward her.
#vss365
Nightmares
“I heard the thing under the bed again last night.”
“Oh, sweetie, it’s your imagination. Look, there’s nothing there.”
“You can’t see it that way. It’s… #beneath.”
“Beneath…what, exactly?”
“It didn’t say. It just said ‘I’m beneath you.’ Why’d you turn off the light?”
#vss365
Justifiable
“I can’t quite #reach it,” she grunted in frustration, fingers barely brushing the ticket she’d dropped. He slapped her ass and crowed, “That’s what she said!” She stood abruptly and shoved him onto the tracks as the train whistled. #vss365