Twister 1012

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The morning veered off like a Scott Norwood field goal. I burnt my toast. The dog puked. And I cut myself shaving. Now it hurts when I piss.

Posted in Twisters | Tagged , , | Comments closed

Twister 1011

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The smell of fresh cut grass. The raking lay ahead. But he had opened a beer and his wife was in the shower. So it was time to make a movie.

Posted in Twisters | Tagged | Comments closed

Twister 1010

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He dreamed about bears. Then he woke up and shaved his chest. But the razor was dull. So he wouldn’t be going to the Hungarian spa that day.

Posted in Twisters | Comments closed

Twister 1009

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

So this is what my life has come to, he thinks. He stares at the granola in front of him with revulsion. And a nostalgia for sausagier days.

Posted in Twisters | Tagged , | Comments closed

Twister 1008

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

There was a therapist. Who played with his eyebrows. His patients left him usually quite quickly. The eyebrow thing freaked them out. A lot.

Posted in Twisters | Comments closed

Twister 1007

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He defines love by how low jeans go. So what if he’s an unmarried plumber? At least he knows the many sinks in his house will never back up.

Posted in Twisters | Comments closed

Twister 1006

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The water tasted bad. He was thirsty but not desperate. So he opened the drawer and found his emergency flask and began the day with bourbon

Posted in Twisters | Tagged , | Comments closed

Twister 1005

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Sam walks home in a fog, stumbling, reeking of a toxic miasma of good times gone bad. He desires only his bed. But wakes amidst the flowers.

Posted in Twisters | Tagged | Comments closed

Twister 1004

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

And the car came straight at them, pulled in by their gravity, and in the moment before it hit, he thought of all the porn on his computer.

Posted in Twisters | Tagged | Comments closed

Twister 1003

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The car missed the kid by this much. And though it wasn’t his kid, he knew the episode had something to do with losing his new wedding ring

Posted in Twisters | Comments closed