Five Survive

by Holly Jackson

‘I thought it would be wider –’ ‘That’s what she said!’

‘For god’s sake, Simon, enough with The Office references,’ Maddy said. ‘He’s been doing that since middle school, before he even knew what it meant.’

Something to remove the nuts.’ ‘That’s what she said,’

Standing here looking at the moon. ‘It’s big tonight,’ Arthur said, following her eyes to the sky. ‘That’s what she said!’

‘Yeah, that sniper won’t know what’s hit him when I slowly charge at him with my Gillette razor.’

‘Chekhov’s knife,’ Simon said with a dark smile as he added it to the items on the dining table. ‘Huh?’ said Oliver. ‘Never mind, it’s a theater thing.’

‘Do you want to hold it up and I’ll tape it?’ ‘That’s what she said!’

‘What are you, the tequila guardian?’ He pointed at her. ‘Right, because I’m Mexican?’

‘Into your positions.’ ‘That’s what she said,’

‘Science, bitch!’

Universes bloomed and died in the seconds they waited,

she must have finally lost her mind, like she lost everything else. Retrace your steps, Red. When did you last see your mind?

And, remember, she’d lost her mind awhile back.

whoopsie daisy

But I’ll be there, I promise. Will you? YES [] NO [] Yours, Arthur