Shatter

246 pieces: tiny, crystalline, shards, anger-thrown across the room, inertia-spread across the floor.

102 words: spit-laced, vulgar, hurtful, said in both fear and sincerity.

54 times: incidents like this in the past few years, increasing in frequency and intensity.

19 calls: made from inside the house and from outside the house and from the two involved and from outsiders concerned.

11 drinks: the average number of consumed by one of the involved or by both before such incidents, though this number varies.

6 holes: in various sizes and in various rooms made during various other incidents.

3 fractures or breaks: solid bone either splintered or severed outright.

2 lives: desperate and scared and lost and stuck and afraid and hopeless and hopeful and hidden and ashamed and remorseful and full of self-loathing and too much empathy and excuses, this is true of each person and is also not true of them, depending.

1 cycle: never ending.