T 5055

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 19, 2011

He steps in some. The squishiest kind. He tears his shoes off. He’s wearing the bad socks. She takes pity on him. He needs a pedicure badly.

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T 5054

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 19, 2011

He picks up her purse and hands it to her and smiles and she says, Thank you, and she says, You’re too kind, and he says, You don’t know me.

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T 5053

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 19, 2011

And then the wedding. And he watched her walk down the aisle. And he said to her, I’m not nervous. And she hoped that would be his final lie.

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T 5052

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 19, 2011

My therapist took out a smoke and I said, What are you doing? and he shrugged and then I stood up and he lay down and I took out a smoke too.

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T 5051

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 19, 2011

There was dust on the table and he knew his mother-in-law was going to blame him, again. When the doorbell rang, he kicked over the garbage.

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T 5050

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 19, 2011

The lies started early in the relationship, from both sides, love really was blind, but this wasn’t love, this was lust, and lust is blinder.

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T 5049

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 19, 2011

The moment arrived and he lay her down and undressed and she stifled a giggle and he said, I’m cold, and she said, OK, because she was kind.

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T 5048

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 19, 2011

She heard dimple but he’d said dingleberry so when she said, I’ll kiss it, he was both repulsed and excited at once. And it ended awkwardly.

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T 5047

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 19, 2011

The plush toys and potpourri. I’m a designer, he pleads with her, but she won’t leave. She’s testing him. Not that he’ll ever figure it out.

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T 5046

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 19, 2011

Your pants are too tight for your face, he tells her. The boardroom goes silent. He knows he’s lost his job. But this was the exit strategy.

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