T 3808

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

She was the kind of mother that saw potential calamity in all of life’s transactions. And then her kids grew up and never spoke to her again

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T 3807

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

The lottery numbers didn’t come in again. His son came home and went straight up to his room. The cat hacked up a fur ball. Touché, he said.

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T 3806

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He parked and she got out and said, You coming? and he said, Not yet, and she knew: He’d been thinking about his second grade teacher again.

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T 3805

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Strong women, casually dressed, sporting pearls and rubies. Lounging in the yard, laughing, debating the merits of their husbands’ genitalia

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T 3804

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

They come upon a store on their walk and she says let’s go in and life can’t get worse for him until they enter and the store’s full of tofu

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T 3803

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Birdsong fills the air. He looks out the bedroom window and stares at the young neighbor suntanning on her new patio. His wife stirs in bed.

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T 3802

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

They fought, as was their wont, and they made up vigorously, as was their wont. I never get tired of fighting, he smiled. And she disagreed.

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T 3801

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He explains that he can’t believe in destiny and she doesn’t understand him and he repeats himself, again, and she says, But you hit my car.

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T 3800

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Another bottle of wine opened, the flirting moves to action, but this wine’s corked and that bugs him. And she loses her desire. Completely.

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T 3052

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He got home and tore off his pants and opened a bag of chips and turned on the TV. He let go a tremendous amount of gas. And laughed. Alone.

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