T 3905

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

My confidence has sprung a leak, he says. There is no hidden meaning in this. You look like Peter Sellers, she says, hidden meaning and all.

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T 3904

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

A hardware store. Endless aisles of shiny stuff. She’s searching for something. For someone. But no one’s around. To recharge her batteries.

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T 3903

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

He enters the bedroom wearing a pink jockstrap and she says, What now? and he says, Here I go, and she’s confused and he says, I want a baby

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T 3902

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

She came home and he was drunk and she said, My happiness is not negotiable! and he was confused. Because he honestly thought it always was.

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T 3901

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

Every morning, he would wake and kiss her. You’re the only one, he would whisper in her ear. Until one morning. When he didn’t say anything.

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T 3900

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

His head hit the floor and he died. A week later, his wife put the house on the market. A year after that she met a guy. He had a hard head.

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T 3899

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

He recalls the mustiness of his grandparents’ house, the smell of old sponge. And that’s why we can’t have sex, he tells the girl on his lap

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T 3898

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

Then she compared him to “boiled potatoes” and that was enough for him. But he had no idea what she meant. And she was wearing a tight tank.

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T 3897

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

It’s cold and wet and he’s wearing tight leather pants for a Jim Morrison fan thing and a groupie type points and says, Too much information

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T 3896

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

The onions lie scattered on the floor. He’s yelling and flailing about, but the video on her laptop is too compelling. So he bleeds to death.

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