I don't know what's real. I don't know what's not real.

Limited Capacity is a collection of six darkly amusing stories about the mysterious ways we interact with the internet and with each other.

There's something going on with him. It's like an act.

I don't trust him. What?

You're staring at me like I should say something, but I don't really know what to do here.

That's the whole name of the game. Don't talk about how the town isn't real. You understand?

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You're listening to a loan, a love story. I'm Michelle Parisi.

Chapter 22. Variations.

An education.

Several times a year, the husband would go out drinking with other teachers.

Sometimes after a school play or a colleague's retirement and always after a long evening of parent-teacher interviews.

On these nights, I knew not to expect him home until 1 or 2 a.m.

And I was fine with that.

But in the last year of our marriage, these nights became more frequent and he'd arrive home much, much later.

At 4 or 5 a.m.

Sometimes I'd wake up to the sound of him crashing around in the kitchen downstairs.

He's such a big, clumsy man at the best of times, but drunk and stoned, he's an elephant.

All household items beware.

Sometimes I'd wake up in the middle of the night in a sudden panic.

Is he dead somewhere? Did he drink so much they got in a fight?

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