T 3982

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

After several hours she just stopped walking and said, Why am I here? and he hesitated before answering and he said, Because I won’t let go.

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T 3981

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

The bottle was empty and the laughter subsided. He said, Man, we’re such children. She agreed. There was silence. Let’s be adults, she said.

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T 3980

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

The sushi was bad. The traffic was bad. The situation was worse. And she saw everything. And she still called him back. It was a good story.

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T 3979

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

The interview is almost over and the committee head asks him if he drank much and he laughs so hard and for so long he forgets the question.

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T 3978

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

She puts her feet up on her desk while he is delivering his report. He stops and looks at her feet. She says, This isn’t that inappropriate.

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T 3977

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

This is the weekend, he thinks, no, sings, he belts this out in the shower. Then he slips on a bar of soap. And the weekend is shot to hell.

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T 3976

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

They find out they’re cousins. This changes things, she says. This changes nothing, he says. Their parents find out. But they’re related too.

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T 3975

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

The dog stops and looks up at her and she says, What? and the dog doesn’t move and then it drops a large turd on her shoe. And she kicks it.

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T 3974

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

Cake, lots of it, on the counter, and he knows he can’t touch any of them, ever, and he watches his wife and says, Some things never change.

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T 3973

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

His middle name is Boomerang and years later he figures out why he’s never met his real father and his mother says, You aren’t missing much.

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