T 5209

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

The children woke up and rushed downstairs. Their father was sitting by the tree, a giant smile on his face. Blame your mom, he said proudly.

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T 5208

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

His mom calls from the bingo parlor and she says, I just got bingo! and she can barely breathe and he says, Mom, and then the line goes dead.

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T 5207

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

Night fell and the forest grew still. Ominous. The children huddled together. Adulthood lurked in the darkness. Until one of the boys farted.

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T 5206

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

His life coach says, Find strength in your limitations, and this stays with him, and next morning he tells his wife, I feel so strong today.

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T 5205

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

He studies his reflection and says, I’m too fat for this shirt. She agrees. He admires her honesty. She knew he would. And he buys the thing.

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T 5204

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

She screamed and he stomped on the cockroach, and she said, My hero, too sarcastically for his taste, and that night the sex was mechanical.

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T 5203

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

And then she pulled off the highway and rolled into the buttfuck town there, and stopped in front of a bar and said, Get out, and I got out.

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T 5202

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

He moved into a part of town that was pre-gentrification. He threw a party but no one showed up, and he went out and bought lottery tickets.

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T 5201

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

She says, He’s like a donkey, and her friends giggle and attack their chardonnay, and they order spring rolls and then they laugh some more.

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T 5200

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

He remembers peeing out of a treehouse, all over the camp counselor. The trouble. And I hadn’t even started drinking yet, he tells the cops.

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