T 3972

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

She watches him dress, grunting as he struggles with his tie. That’s the sound you make in the bathroom, she laughs. And now he’s depressed.

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T 3971

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

The pressure built from behind the facade he had artfully constructed over a fourteen year career and then he erupted like an overgrown zit.

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T 3970

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

He woke up and she was pointing a gun at him and he said, Was I that bad? and she put the gun down and emptied the clip and said, Like that.

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T 3969

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

This was a form of payment. He understood. She had bought his silence and had more money. Whenever the need arose. Whenever she felt a need.

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T 3968

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

Then he overheard someone from the book club say, You look like my shar pei, and he checked the cheese and conceded it may have been too old.

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T 3967

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

He wears his lucky tie and kills at the big presentation, and then he’s on the lam and ends up in Panama and the cops never find the bodies.

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T 3966

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

Dogs. Cheese. White rugs. His life had turned into a movie no one would ever pay to watch. The dogs start barking. And then his mother calls.

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T 3965

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

First the meeting was called to order. Then there was some hand holding. Followed by crying. And then a declaration of profits. Then nudity.

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T 3964

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

The wedding was a grand thing. Hundreds of guests spending thousands of dollars of someone else’s cash. All because the groom was a bad liar.

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T 3962

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

He sits immobile, shrouded by memories, by a life once lived and no longer livable. But she knew he’d have a tough time becoming vegetarian.

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