Twister 2405

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She watches the dogs in the park, the endless canine dance of sniffing. There’s an easy life, she tells her husband. He takes it personally.

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Twister 2404

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The soup sits badly inside. He feels a churning. And bubbles. And then a beautiful girl walks up and asks him the time. For regret, he says.

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Twister 2403

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She beefs up her knowledge of sports. And takes pole dancing lessons. But he’s not pleased. I need completion not competition, he tells her.

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Twister 2402

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The news on the radio. Runaway school buses and distant explosions. She turns the volume to low and wakes him. Now, where were we? she says.

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Twister 2401

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She is beyond the point of flirtation. Way past. But not him. I don’t love you, he says. But I’d love to love you. He smiles. She tries to.

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Twister 2400

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The sounds give them away. The cops shine a light down the alley, and she scrambles to cover herself up. But not him. He’s proud of himself.

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Twister 2399

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He watches her exit the bath. She says, Honest with the heat. He says, We have bills. She slips on the floor. Now we’ll have more, she says.

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Twister 2398

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She tells him. He sits down and says, Now I’ll never get to go to a brothel in Italy! And she says, The dream has gone but the baby is real.

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Twister 2397

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The barcode tattoo felt like a good idea until he was kidnapped by anarchists. Begging for his life he vowed he would never be ironic again.

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Twister 2396

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She plies him with whisky and he asks, Is this love? I won’t know until the disappointment, she says. She licks his neck. And falls in love.

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