T 5199

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

Needy men commiserating over a beer, desiring invisible wantings to want more and be wanted, but through metaphor, sports really, only that.

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T 5198

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

Call your grandmother! he yells at his son. I have no idea why he resents you, he tells his mother. We’re out of juice, he says to his wife.

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T 5197

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

He felt it everywhere inside of him but mostly in that one obvious place, he felt it there strongly, and he told her he was possibly in love.

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T 5196

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

It wasn’t a wake. And his drunkenness was not appreciated. Except by the cousins. But they were first cousins. And he still had some morals.

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T 5195

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

They met and soon he had drowned her with his love, and so she decided to do the same to him, and one night she did. And he never recovered.

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T 5194

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

The doctors huddled, a conclave to discuss a recent bowel movement, and he felt great shame, mostly because his kids were still in the room.

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T 5193

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

You will sit in the chair and while she unbuttons her top you will think of your life, and everything that led you here. And you will panic.

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T 5192

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

His flight was called and he kissed her. She said she’d pray for him and he got on the airplane. And remembered she wasn’t at all religious.

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T 5191

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

The arrogant man orders a burger. The waitress asks how he wants it. He says, I want it now. She returns with a gun. Say it again, she says.

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T 5190

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

He woke and she was hovering above him, holding his new pants, and she said, Where were you? and he said, I went shopping, and she said, Oh.

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