T 4018

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

The alarm clock goes off and he sleepwalks to the shower and then walks to work naked and performs his tasks, and no one notices he’s naked.

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T 4017

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

And then he had to concede the thing, and he broke away from her and sighed and he said, I don’t like your meatloaf, and she started crying.

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T 4016

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

The couple sat on a park bench and kissed each other deeply. Why are you doing that? a boy asked them. Neither of them knew the right answer.

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T 4015

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

He put the sauce on a teaspoon and fed her and he said, This tastes of my love, and she imagined his love, and said, Then you need a shower.

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T 4014

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

The sausage tasted off. Earlier, he had been stopped by a cop and he totally mouthed off. Now, waiting in the clinic, he knows who to blame.

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T 4013

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

We have enough people, the youngest man says. We have quorum, the oldest man harrumphs. And after the meeting the young man dreams of murder.

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T 4012

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

She couldn’t stop crying. She had misunderstood. He’d said, Dogmatic. And as he watched her suffer he decided not to try and clear things up.

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T 4011

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

I want to travel to a land where my smell won’t be considered funny, he says. Then that gesture she makes. And he knows she agrees with him.

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An interview with Kevin Canty

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 21, 2011

Kevin Canty‘s been in Montreal leading some fiction workshops at the SLS, a great program of workshops and readings that take place around the world and that has quickly become a big deal. I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin about the writing process and, at the same time, diving into his work. He is […]

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On Father’s Day

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 19, 2011

At the dining room table, my dad and my father-in-law are having some kind of discussion about Haiti. My father in law was recently hospitalized and shared a room with a Haitian gentleman. And suddenly my father and my father in law are discussing the history of Haiti and that country’s myriad problems, and the […]

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