T 3051

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

She kept asking him questions, but his mouth was full and the food was so good and he kept piling it in and she kept talking, and he choked.

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T 3050

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

The dream was like an old Irish Spring commercial except all the lasses looked like his mom and he woke with a start and cried in his pillow

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T 3049

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

They drove home in silence, the street lights illuminating sterile stripmalls. She fiddled with her pearls. She knew he had seen everything.

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T 3048

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

The teacher wanted to impart the lesson of “you can have too much of a good thing” on her charges but after last night she didn’t believe it.

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T 3047

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Song filled the room, voices converging into a chorus of one. Until the old guy fell over dead. And then cacophony. Except for some laughter.

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T 3046

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Desperation sets in. Intimations of mortality, of a door closing forever. What was on that pizza? the fat lady asks. Then she starts to sing

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T 3045

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

The end of a hard day. She hurts with a ferocity that surprises. He brings home a pizza and dances a jig. Funny’s not in your DNA, she says.

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T 3054

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He stormed in to the diner and the waitress said, So? and he said, I would kill for a burger, and the cops found him a day later in a ditch.

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T 3053

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Her dress sparkled like shards of glass by the side of a lonely road. You look like trouble, her dad said. I smell like it too, she replied.

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T 3052

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He caught his parents in the yard and his mother put down the hose and said, You did not see this, and afterward the kid felt like an adult.

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