Twister 2385

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Jim opens the blinds. The sunlight streams into the room, highlighting everything. He studies the scene and shudders. And closes the blinds.

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Twister 2384

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He sees things out of the corner of his eyes, imagined insects and the ghosts of fallen saints. I’m not crazy, he says. But no one hears him

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Twister 2383

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The hands are rugged, maps to a life of labor. She takes them in hers, and something maternal wells up inside her. Just be gentle, she says.

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Twister 2382

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He uses the word emasculated and his wife laughs and the girls laugh too, even though they don’t know what it means. I’m screwed, he thinks.

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Twister 2381

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Money had been exchanged. Lots of it. But the bald dude on stage is a deaf and blind woman’s Tom Jones. And then the hordes of angry ladies.

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Twister 2380

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He picks his nose hairs to start crying and then he calls his wife and tells her how much he loves her. And he gets very lucky that evening.

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Twister 2379

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He took sick leave for exhaustion and returned to work two months later and his boss said, Are you still crazy? and then he felt tired again

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Twister 2378

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The neighbor goes jogging every morning with his massively big feet. My wife always comments on the size of his shoes. But my house is nicer

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Twister 2377

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The sun sets and he sighs and says, I lived another day. And she realizes that he will never satisfy her. And that she wants some chocolate.

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Twister 2376

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They dove into the water and swam toward each other and groped and giggled and she said what’s that? and he said not me and they were scared

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