Twister 2506

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He walks into a pole and bangs his head and passes out. Paramedics arrive and revive him and he says, It was just some spectacular cleavage.

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Twister 2504

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The bed is warm and he shifts and finds that perfect position. Not yet, he tells the kids. The world melts away. But not the morning glory.

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Twister 2503

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She caught him sniffing his underarm. Charming, she said. He was nonplussed, and put his arm around her. I’m being my best for you, he said.

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Twister 2502

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The kids orbited their mother like Mercury around the sun. She called her husband. I’m going to blow, she said. And he squirmed in his seat.

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Twister 2501

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He eats sausages out of cans. The dogs run roughshod over the condo. The tattered furniture is unfashionable. I love cold sausages, he says.

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Twister 2500

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He’s aware he might smother her but he will take his chances. She’s too lovely, too perfect. He buys her flowers. I can’t breathe, she says.

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Twister 2499

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They stepped outside and the sun beat down on their skin. Are you warm now? she asked. He nodded. Because it doesn’t look like it, she said.

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Twister 2498

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He’d wanted to eat the dry sausage like he’d seen those old European men do it. That’s what he’d told the doctor. But she didn’t believe him

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Twister 2497

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She looks at her watch and runs over to his office and says, Quick we have five minutes. And he gets up and says, Great, we can do it twice.

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Twister 2496

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He came home and said, This tie sucks. She made a cocktail. He drank it down and sat on the leather chair. I made a roast, she said sighing.

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