Frances: "..."
Buzz: (sighs) "Franny, I want to hang outside alone for a minute if you mind."
Frances: "Oh, I don't mind." Pause. "As long as my hard work doesn't depend on it."
Buzz: "Hard work?"
Frances: "Look, I've been trying to make a decent dish for six hours, not delicious or gross but decent, and I so don't want my hard work to go to waste just because you're pretending to be un-hungry. I mean, six hours. Doesn't that count?"
Buzz: "I'm not pretend-"
Frances: "I just told you that I worked my ass off on that dish for SIX FREAKING HOURS and you only listened a small phrase. Gosh, Buzz!"
Buzz: "..."
Frances: "And Ed really needs to have timing on when to open that big mouth of his."
Buzz: "..."
Frances: "..."
Buzz: "I miss mom."
Frances: "Me too. And dad."
Buzz: "I don't. And you didn't have to disguise yourself as dad to give me that letter from Boston."
Frances: "I just- I wanted to-"
Buzz: "It's fine."
Frances: "So, you, uh, in touch with your friends? You haven't brought your mute friend over for a while."
Buzz: "You mean Kari? Yeah, I guess. She and her brother are now living with their dad. And, um, she's found a guy."
Frances: "That's great."
Buzz: "Yeah."
pause
Buzz: "Franny, can I ask you something?"
Frances: "Sure."
Buzz: "Why didn't you ever marry?"
Frances: "..."
Buzz: "Franny?"
Frances: "uh, w-who's gonna look after you knuckleheads then?"
Buzz: "We both know that's not an answer."
Frances: "..."
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Anesthesia
Short StoryPreviously known as 'Ours will die with us' and 'Less' anes-the-sia: Loss of feeling in all or a part of a body with or without loss of consciousness. So maybe a person is suffering from permanent anesthesia, then that person wouldn't be able to fe...
