Twister 6

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The table was covered with stale candies and bread. Out of the TV, the white noise of MTV. She hadn’t been gone that long. But long enough.

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Twister 2

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

And then the walls crumbled. He picked his way through the rubble and found her, eating Fruit Loops out of the box. “Wow,” she said, smiling

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Twister 3641

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

You must be a plus size model, he says. He means it in the best way. But later that evening he sees there may never be a good way to say it.

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Twister 3640

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The stream becomes a river becomes an ocean. Estuaries form. An ecosystem. He now realizes he may have overdone it. But the girls were cute.

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Twister 3638

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Love happens. She drowns in it. You’re an ocean when all I want is a puddle, she says. He scratches his head. She kinda likes that about him

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Twister 3637

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He says, My work is done, but all he’s done is take a call and yell. This is pointed out to him and he says, I’m going to earn my pay today.

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Twister 3636

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She was all for adventurous eating but it was a first date and the sausage looked too much and she wasn’t sure if she did that sort of thing

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Twister 3633

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He says thing like, On the precipice of memory, and this gets him a certain kind of gal but not the kind that does the things he likes to do

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Twister 3632

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They wake and he doesn’t recognize her without the previous night’s makeup, and she doesn’t recognize him out of his awful ill-fitting suit.

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Twister 3631

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He hated taking the bus but when the nun undressed right there he admitted maybe there was something to public transit he hadn’t considered.

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