T 5189

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

Dinner was served but my brother and his girlfriend were making everyone sick. So I stabbed them in the genitals. And dug into the pad thai.

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T 5188

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

He orders a coffee and the waitress arches an eyebrow, and he says, I’m tired of being sensible, and later that day he gets mauled by a lion.

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T 5187

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

He says, You have big hands, and she says, Compared to yours. Humiliated, he grabs his knife and fork, and cuts into his pulled pork slider.

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T 5186

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

The joke was offensive, no one doubted that, and we stood around awkwardly. But when the hairy lady laughed, we were freed from our reserve.

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T 5185

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

He went and bought underwear and showed up at the meeting in them and his boss entered and raised an eyebrow. I said ‘Be brief’, she sighed.

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T 5184

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

They slathered hot sauce on everything, and that night he endured nightmares, and next morning he said, It burns, and she called him a wimp.

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T 5183

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

The doctor hovered over him. Behind, a gaggle of nurses. And orderlies. The doctor held up an x-ray. How did that get inside you? he asked.

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T 5182

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

They woke still entwined, and she studied the mole on his shoulder and he said, You’re beautiful, and she said, You were until a moment ago.

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T 5181

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

She picks up the magazine and looks at him and he says, What? and she says, What what? and he says, What what what? and she dies of boredom.

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T 5180

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

He looks at his hands and then at hers. When did you get so old? he asks her. She starts laughing. She holds up a mirror. But he can’t look.

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