100,000 people with nothing better to do…

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 31, 2011

That’s unfair. That’s very unfair of me and I am grateful to each and every one of them. Yesterday at some point, I passed 100,000 followers on Twitter. My follower number is not something I obsess over too much but any way you look at it, a number like 100,000 is a milestone of some […]

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New Story in Matrix #89

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 30, 2011

If you have access to it, Matrix is a great indie literary magazine published out of Montreal. The latest issue is ostensibly about hockey, just in time for the Stanley Cup finals and I have a story in it about a former player who contemplates his unsuccessful run on the rink while ogling his customers […]

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Squishy Audiobook Coming Soon

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 27, 2011

The good folk over at Iambik Audiobooks will be releasing Squishy as an audiobook sometime this fall. The pub date is a question mark right now, but IT WILL HAPPEN. The paperwork’s done, Iambik and DC (the publishers of Squishy) have signed the contract, and away we go. I look forward to this and will […]

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T 3949

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 26, 2011

The party is jovial in a kind of chemical sense and he’s tired of the short distracted conversations and he walks outside and shoots a bird.

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T 3948

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 26, 2011

He loved these hills. She is saying this as she holds the urn. And then the wind. And the unfortunate waste of her dependable fried chicken.

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T 3947

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 26, 2011

The phone rang. He said, I was reading about this cool new bar, and she stopped him and said, In the paper? and he said yes and she hung up.

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T 3946

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 26, 2011

The welcome guy was too welcoming. I half expected him to stick his tongue down my throat. I’m just here for cheap diapers. Is he that hurt?

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T 3945

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 26, 2011

He looked at the bus with a loathing that surprised him, and he said, When did I become like this? and she asked if he was being rhetorical.

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T 3944

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 26, 2011

He wants to love and be loved. He knows he’s difficult and quite undeserving. But. And then. Everyone deserves love; some more than others.

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T 3943

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 26, 2011

She brought cake and they told their guests about how they met and there was a disagreement and then the guests had the better story by far.

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