T 4115

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 8, 2011

She invited some friends over. He had history with one of them; it was awkward for him. Soon it was awkward for everyone. Except the writer.  

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T 4114

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 8, 2011

The big girl is wearing short shorts and he thinks, You must suffer from chafing, but he says it out loud and discovers just how big she is.  

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T 4113

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 8, 2011

The playwright talks of the “Jealousy of the gods” and the producer replies “Let’s throw in an explosion,” and that’s how the movie got made.  

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T 4112

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 8, 2011

He would die for her attention. He told his friends this, and they laughed. And then he was hit by a car. But she didn’t attend the funeral.  

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T 4111

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 8, 2011

The hotel is expensive but still the walls are thin. The couple next door sound like rutting pigs. I’m turned on, he says, dreaming of bacon.  

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T 4110

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 8, 2011

She told him to meet her at The Place, but he went to a Place he thought she meant where he met different people and now he had a new Place.  

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T 4109

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 8, 2011

He cut himself shaving. She woke up and ran to the bathroom. I bled on the bed, she said. They spent the day in their respective grass huts.  

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T 4108

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 8, 2011

He made his fortune in infomercials. He met a mommy blogger and they had an affair. She had a kid and he sold it on TV. She blogged about it.  

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The Dead Tree Society

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 6, 2011

This post, from the great Los Angeles Review of Books, is quite awesome and on the money. We need to stop blaming the internet for killing everything. It didn’t. The internet didn’t kill the music industry: the music industry did, by its disregard for musicians and music. In other words, they killed themselves because they […]

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