The Short Short Short Story

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 14, 2011

There are loads of websites promoting very short stories. The internet has enabled the very short story in an interesting way and it says something about the internet itself and how we use it, how we read on it, and about the hunger for stories in general.  There is, of course, a Twitter hashtag (#vss) […]

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Soy Chicken and BBQ Pork on Rice with Attitude

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 12, 2011

I’ve just returned from Toronto where I spent a few days attending MagNet, an industry conference, doing some work, hitting up the latest Literary Death Match (I was a judge at the one in Montreal) and then hosting the National Magazine Awards (I’m President of the NMAF, the body that runs the show; what this […]

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T 4010

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

The boy says, I wanna learn the vibraphone, and I know he’s just trying to piss me off. He says, I’m gonna like jazz, and that was my limit.

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T 4009

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

She can tell by his footsteps that he’s depressed. He enters the bedroom. What is it? she asks. Gray hair. In all the wrong places, he says.

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T 4008

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

The teacher says, I feel like eating bad Chinese, and he hears some giggling from the back, those bad Chinese girls, and he laughs a bit too.

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T 4007

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

He was agitated and this agitated her. She said, Calm down, and he acknowledged this, and he said, I can’t wait to go home and pick my nose.

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T 4006

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

He said, You’re girlfriend has a hot ass, something he meant as a big compliment but it wasn’t taken as such and he wakes up in the hospital.

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T 4005

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

We stepped out of the bar for a smoke, guys talking about important and trivial stuff, and then we returned to the bar and forgot everything.

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T 4004

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

Is that a lemon? he asks the grocer, and she rolls her eyes, again, and he smiles. And says, That’s the glue to our relationship. She knows.

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T 4003

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

He sees something on her scalp and picks it off, and she kisses him. You’re my gorilla, she coos. He grunts for her. You have lice, he says.

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