T 3730

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

And then there was coffee, the exclamation mark to a remarkable night. He made some pancakes. She felt enchantment. Though she craved bacon.

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T 3729

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

She asks him what he does and he says, I play with words. He’s pleased with himself and she leans in and says, That means you’re poor right?

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T 3728

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He spotted her across the bar and couldn’t stop looking. And then she walked over to him and he felt electric. Stop looking at me, she said.

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T 3727

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

She watched him leave the house, walking funny, with a kind of limp, but she wasn’t worried because she was the reason he was walking funny.

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T 3726

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

I would like evolution to explain this, he sighs as she traces figure eights on his chest. He’s wants to fall asleep. But she wants to talk.

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T 3725

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

They watched the kids eating. The mess they made. Remember when we didn’t have kids? he said. No, she said. He didn’t sleep well that night.

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T 3724

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

The lawyers saw another night of take-out in front of them and the young one looked at her boss and said, Why do you pick your nose so much?

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T 3723

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He put down his cutlery then and he said, No you shut up. And she stared deep into his soul until he felt it explode, and she said, No, you.

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T 3722

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Fishing tales. Guys boasting about size and technique. Heroic effort. The wives listening in, rolling their eyes. Thinking wistful thoughts.

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T 3721

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Once he told her the truth she felt dead with hurt and she asked him if he was a monster, and he said he was comfortable living with regret.

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