intolerance: lactose and other varieties

[Angela]

what are you doing he asks in that tone of his that i can never really tell if he is alarmed or irritated or confused or pissed or what and i know no matter how i answer him it will be wrong and my tone will not be appropriate to his question and whatever my tone is he will make it sound as if it is my fault that he is so hard to decipher.

of course, it is not just him that i cannot figure out; everybody asks questions that i do not understand, it is just that his are the most irritating.

so i tell him i am reading a book but he doesn’t like my tone so he says fuck I was just asking you what you were doing and i say well fuck can’t you see i’m reading a goddam book.

so he says a bunch of other shit that i can’t even remember or really he says a bunch of stuff i really choose to not remember because if i do remember i will want to kill him again (or cry just to make him feel bad).

not that i killed him already and i want to do it a second time, but that i have wanted to kill him many times before and i do not think that thinking like that is good for my mental health.

he gets up and leaves the room and comes back with ice cream but none for me, not to be punishing (i don’t think so, but maybe, yes to be punishing, who the fuck can tell) but i have lactose intolerance, not that new fucking gluten shit that everyone has nowadays so even if he decided to be nice by bringing me ice cream i wouldn’t be able to enjoy it.

[Toby Tucker Hecht]

Great characters for something longer.  Go for it.

[Paul de Denus]

Yeah, those emotions can ride for awhile beneath the surface- you let them out well Ang

[Joey Delgado]

Anger is such a difficult emotion to write, but with this Six you made it look easy. I would love to read the narrarators extended diaries. More, please. :)

[Jenny Darlington]

I definitely thought I was reading truth until seeing the tag! I think we all know, or have known, at least one person like this in our lifetime! Someone whose mere presence just annoys the crap out of us. Or maybe I'm just speaking for myself, lol!

[Cita]

wow... excellent use of stream of consciousness.

[Bill Floyd]

Rage on.  I like the stream-of-fuck-you-consciousness going on in this one, seems like something you haven't done much of in the past, although it perfectly fits with the subject matter.  High powered.  

[Gita]

I was gonna say, Breyer's makes a lactose free ice cream. Get some and put your name on the carton. But this is fiction and you don't live with an annoying person.

Very good dialogue. It was uncannily realistic.

[Teresa]

Damn.  I missed the tag the first time.  I was gonna say you are preaching to the choir but, uh, this is made up so...  I can identify with this fictional anger and intolerance.  In a nonfiction sense...;0)