8 Comments
User's avatar
Patris's avatar

In other words: how you get through life doing the best you can.

And I completely get the recourse to gummy candy, well, because..

Expand full comment
Patty Mallett's avatar

Messy family. Real family.

Expand full comment
Joe's avatar

Wow.

You've got some great lines in this one!

And the finale:

"May I take the car?"

Surviving crisis mode.

Expand full comment
B Stings's avatar

Nancy needed to put the screws to Patrick not herself. Ouch! Gummy remedy

Expand full comment
Robert M Savage, Jr's avatar

Interesting.

Expand full comment
Jimmy Doom's avatar

Never want them to be boring. Watched a Japanese TV show last night that took a very rich ( if somewhat well traveled ) premise and just buried it in tedium and contrived drama

Expand full comment
V. C. Ackerman's avatar

“Cascading deceit, tiny lies inside tsunamis of untruths that crashed on a beach of brightly colored parasols whose cheerful hues were a lie themselves.” I got whiplash from this line being followed by Nancy breaking her tooth just so she could see a doctor who might want to sleep with her. Good story, as always.

Expand full comment
Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thanks. Every day I try to write something entertaining

Expand full comment