Twister 3630

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The table groans under various antipasti. I love you because you eat the things I won’t, she chirps. He thinks this is part of their problem

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Twister 3629

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He held her and said, I feel lost. She took in the enormity of his words and kissed him. Was that so hard? she asked. And they hailed a cab.

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Twister 3628

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The day is sunny perfection. Joy. But she doesn’t notice any of it because he’s just told her he’s putting chicken sausage into the chowder.

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Twister 3627

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

His doctor suggested he start jogging. He saw that as the beginning of the beginning of the end and so he bent over and said, I can take it.

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Twister 3626

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

And then you suck out the marrow, he says, and the ladies applaud and they cut to a commercial and he thinks, This would be better on cable.

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Twister 3625

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The laughter faded into sighs. The wiping of tears. The blowing of noses. He put the pointer down. His presentation wasn’t meant to be funny

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Twister 3624

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They had started to hire thin sickly looking girls to do the temp work and that was the first sign he had that no one cared about him at all

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Twister 3623

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Almost every day, he’d ask the kids, Do you think I’m stupid? and then one cold evening his wife took him aside and told him the awful news.

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Twister 3621

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He calls her up and says, I’m on fire, and she blushes and says, Oh baby, and he says, No I mean it, and later she sees the fire on the news

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Twister 3620

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The English professor says, I’m not giving you a better mark because of your overuse of hence. So then she thinks about resorting to Plan B.

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