The Dinner

ere’s someone lying there. Someone’s lying there asleep, in a sleeping bag. Jesus, man, I almost stepped on his head.

Inside there, the brother says. There’s someone lying there. Someone’s lying there asleep, in a sleeping bag. Jesus, man, I almost stepped on his head.

had it all coming

didn’t feel like being

My wife can’t come to the phone

the bigger the earrings, the more significant, the more festive, the evening

get by on their own

How are things at home?

and I had to bite my tongue.

rolled her eyes