Twister 3287

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He admitted to missing her, and it was true in a fashion, but what he really missed was her corned beef hash, and he knew that made him bad.

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Twister 3286

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

There are donuts in the lunchroom. He licks them, videos it with his phone, posts it to the intranet. And serves the donuts to his coworkers

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Twister 3285

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Then he uttered the last, I couldn’t be bothered, ever. Because then she threw a chair at him and he tripped over it and she didn’t call 911

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Twister 3284

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

When he was young his mother told him he’d been conceived in a fast car, and he didn’t appreciate her use of the adjective until much later.

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Twister 3283

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The tiger said, What if I gave up meat? The bird said, I have vertigo. The otter said, I hate water. This children’s book was a downer, man.

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Twister 3282

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They were incompatible. And they argued. He said, I don’t go to parties where there will be cameras. Then she understood it would never work

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Twister 3281

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He studies eels. She keeps saying, Come what may. Their friends think they enjoy a healthy sex life. They used to. Now they just dress well

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Twister 3280

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She spoke to him about her dream where she walked freely through fields of flowers and he took it personally, not knowing she was a botanist

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Twister 3279

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Darkness fell upon the house and the phone rang and the boy answered and he put it down and said, Their flight’s canceled, and there was joy

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Twister 3278

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He was a mattress salesman but it had never been his goal to be a salesman of any kind. I have a bad back, he’d lament, eating old pastrami.

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