Claire sobbed hysterically while she watched Tom’s gruesome demise.
The chainsaw ceased its whirl, Tom became still, and shortly thereafter the police arrived.
Tandem Part Four
Tom’s body went limp and he collapsed onto the floor on top of his spinning chainsaw.
A torrent of blood gushed from his form while he was painfully cut in half by the movement of his own weapon.
Tandem Part Three
Tom blinked rapidly with a cough as blood dripped from his face before he raised the chainsaw in his hand and ran across the room in Claire’s direction with a loud roar.
Claire sidestepped Tom’s clumsy advance and she fell to the floor behind him before she raised her blade and rammed the edge of the weapon deep into the center of his spine.
Sunday Evening
I have a good feeling about this;my belly is a butterfly cage.
I’d call my circumstances a fair trade:one with lips of cigarette smoke for one whose skin tastes of happiness.
Tandem Part Two
Claire dropped her bag and held up her weapon for both Tom and Jill to see. She rushed to Jill and hacked away at the screaming young woman with the razor sharp edge of her shiny brand new machete.
Dark
There are two kinds of dark.
Yours, and mine.
Scarborough Beach
I cry when I remember the walk to Scarborough Beach.
I cry for the loss.
Tandem Part One
When Claire walked into her apartment she saw Kelly, her best friend and roommate, chopped up on the floor with her crazy ex-boyfriend and escaped mental patient Tom standing over her bloody body holding a spinning chainsaw.
Claire turned to run and she bumped into Jill, Tom’s new girlfriend and fellow institutional escapee, who was holding a shiny silver axe.
Raincheck
Ok, I said we should take a raincheck.
I didn’t mean for us to have this ten-year drought!
Racist much
Oh Taco you silly billy.
Mexican gardeners – you can’t teach em!
Caramel butterflies
Great, now the caramel butterflies are extinct.
Stupid introduced fairyfloss toads.
Cold
My feet are cold.
Just like my hear…mwah ha ha heart.
Prediction
In the end things were so bitter between us we couldn’t stand to be in the same room.
A prediction for the future.
Wife
My wife thought she knew me.
So funny what people think.
Breaking up
Oh dear you seem to be breaking up.
Time to patch the clay girl.
Found things
I cleaned my room and found many of the things you had left behind.
My self-respect wasn’t amongst them.
College
I studied what you studied because I had no idea what to do.
Probably should have asked you first if you knew what you were doing, right?
A New Cell
Ever thought about how prisons resemble small cities? I’m going to make it a goal to vacation at one of these private locations.
Hee-bee-jee-bies
Her cousin was dating her best friend; and even though at times it seemed a little inbred, for the most part it didn’t bother her. But when they sat behind her in the back row of the cinema house, and he winked while slathering on chapstick, she cringed.
Marketing girl
I attributed all kinds of complex motivations to your behaviours and spent a long time working out how to work with you.
Then I realised I just needed to shake something shiny in your eyeline and you’d get distracted and totally forget all that marketing bullshit.