T 5401

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

I was tired. I told her we lived in the autumn of our love, and she went on the Internet, and said, I’m pretty sure it’s winter, and it was.

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T 5400

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

She was a cranky dieter and he said, I like you big, and she said, You’re not right for me, and he said, See? so she killed him and ate him.

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T 5399

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

She asked him to dance. He said, I don’t dance so well. I don’t do a lot of things well, she said. He wondered what they were. And said, No.

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T 5398

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

They fell to the couch and it swallowed them up. He said, It’s an old couch, and she said, I just found 6 dollars. And they spent it on gin.

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T 5397

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

We met in a casino, he tells her. He knows their lives will change now, and forever, and he can’t watch. At least she was free, he whimpers.

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T 5396

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

She sighs and says, You always think about sex, and he says, Not at all, and she says, So what are you thinking about now? and he says, You.

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T 5395

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

The meeting ends. Handshakes are made and everyone goes for drinks. There is talk of consummation. And they get a suite at the local Hilton.

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T 5394

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

The cork zooms right into her eye, shortchanging the celebration. I’ll never see again! she howls. But it was just prosecco, her father says.

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T 5393

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

He wakes her, and she says, What’s wrong? He says, Your son is using my razor. She says, He doesn’t need to shave. And then she understands.

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T 5392

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

They undressed. They stared at the water. It looks cold, he said. He steeled himself for her put down, but it didn’t come. And they dove in.

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