Phoenix

wasn’t Rachel’s scream or April’s. It was still another sex noise from the next room. It’s another stalemate. The bag will always be half full. Ted will always be cheating

You don’t understand,” Rachel tells the phone. “I need you to hurt her to prove she’s alive.” She demands, “Hurt her as proof of how much you don’t hate me

they’d switched on the gas jets, Ted and Rachel had been barbecuing untold pounds of buried cat waste. The insurance adjuster told them that what had occurred was without precedent

never say, “What a lovely sunset” or “Eyes this way, honey.” Around April, to exclaim, “What a beautiful flower!” would seem cruel.

That was his chief charm