Vacation

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 22, 2011

I am going on vacation. I say this for a simple reason. Because I won’t be posting. Unless something momentous happens. I just thought I’d let you know. Hope your summer’s going well. Mine’s about to get a whole lot better.

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The Art of Procrastination

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 18, 2011

There is an art to procrastination and we are all proficient at it in various ways. I nailed it this weekend. I wanted to finish writing a short story all weekend and never got around to it. I thought about the story a lot (and the thinking is an important part of the writing process) […]

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The Social

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

The internet is a social place. You meet people, share things, you “talk” without having to talk. The irony, of course, is that if you’re not very social in real life, you can still get your social fix in cyberspace and a lot of people do exactly that. Good for them. But there’s too much […]

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T 4107

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

A gentle wind messes her majestic hair, and she says, I like cherries, and he feels a crippling weakness, and blood in all the wrong places.

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T 4106

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

He says, Stop making that face. She says, Stop making me. And he knows he loses either way. A return to action. And she says, Open your eyes.

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T 4105

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

A long time ago. Always a long time ago. Never now. When we were younger. A different time. He hears this over and over. Because he said no.

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T 4104

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

Nightmares are the spam of the unconscious, the therapist tells him, apologetically. He wishes that were true. And so what are you? he asks.

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T 4103

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

He burnt dinner and the fire alarm went off and the door bell rang and he yelled, Fuck! and she heard him and smiled. She’d brought take out.

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T 4102

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

Then one day the marriage stopped working. Both of them new it. When did this happen? they wondered. He figured it was last week’s pot roast.

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T 4101

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

Birth. Learning stuff. And more stuff. Poop. Buying stuff. Losing stuff. Some fun. Some not so much fun. Some adventure. Boredom. TV. Death.

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