T 3051

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

She offers him a whiskey and he’s trying to be gallant but his dinner’s coming up and his breath tastes vile. And she’s so damned beautiful.

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T 3050

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Every question resulted in denial because the questions were loaded; but that’s the way things were now, especially since he’d gained weight

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T 3049

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

The boys sit around comparing familial tragedies and the new kid tells of the time his family ate bad lentils and were deported and he wins.

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T 3048

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He ordered the soup and she sighed. She had hoped for more of a man than he’d turned out to be. Later he used a toothpick. She sighed again.

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T 3047

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He harangued his daughter some more and then said, Pass the salt, and then the moment his daughter dreaded. Let me tell you a story, he said

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T 3745

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Their talk turned to love finally and he said, I have to warn you, and she said, Not yet, and he said, I’m going to compare you to my mother

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T 3744

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

The kids are put to bed. The parents go out to the backyard and get stoned. But their munchies go unmunched; the kids have eaten everything.

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T 3743

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

By the time she was through with her shower, he’d sliced his finger peeling potatoes, reevaluated his life, and decided he was gay all along

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T 3742

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

The guys were so dumbstruck by the MILFs that their food court pad thai grew cold and chewy and more inedible than when they’d ordered them.

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T 3741

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

They went to the bar and were assaulted by the stench of loneliness. So it has come to this, he said. She sat down and said, Don’t you start

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