Road Trip

by Kat


I make sure I speak loud enough for her to hear. “Look, babe… I’m sorry.”

“You should be, you son of a bitch!” Her muffled voice is beginning to sound tired.

I nod but continue driving in silence.

“If you’re so sor-”

I cut her off. “No, I’m not letting you out of the trunk.”

I Know

by Kat


“We just ran a red light.” I take one last drag and flicked my butt out the window. “Again.”

A smile flickered across his face. Sexy and subtle. “I know.”

I leaned back. “I’ve taken this route many times before but it has never been this much fun.”

Again he flashes that smile. “I know.”

The Gift

by Kat


Her note explained it all.

It was my fault. Me, she claimed, and that whore mistress of mine.

Don’t deny it, she wrote, I never would have known if I hadn’t found the gift you bought her. You never bought me any jewelry.


Heartbroken and angry, I carefully chose her epitaph.

“It was for you.”

The Affair

by Kat


He doesn’t believe me anymore.

Not since my Affair.

Everything we do, everything he says, is tainted by It.

A hundred times I’ve begged him to forgive. Maybe even forget.

But he wont.

Tonight, he was on his way out to the bar:

“Have fun,” I said.

“No.” He shook his head. “You have fun.”

Pills

by Kat

She slams the empty pill canister on the table with such force that the orange plastic cracks slightly.

“I took these,” Her voice quivers. “All of them.”

Tom sighs and slowly folds his newspaper with painstaking deliberation. Finished, he reaches up and adjusts his glasses.

He clears his throat. “Are you breaking up with me?”