T 5440

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

She could see he was upset. You’re too smart for me, he said. But you have lovely muscles, she said. He didn’t think that was enough anymore.

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T 5439

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

He hovered over the corpse. Blood dripped off the knife. The cops barged in. He said, I dont know what happened. The cops said, OK, and left.

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T 5438

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

She says, Let’s go to the steakhouse and sit at the bar and pick up guys, but there are no guys to pick up because the ad on TV was all lies.

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T 5437

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

One day he says to his wife, I will no longer speak. And she says, Are those your last words? And he shrugs. And keeps her guessing forever.

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T 5436

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

Then she sighed and said, Tell me a story, and he stood up and said, The end, and she appreciated how appropriate his story was and she left.

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T 5435

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

He takes her hand and they share a moment and then she says, Did you wash your hands? and he starts laughing and he says, I didn’t even pee.

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T 5434

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

She laments the speed with which it has unspooled. The law of unintended consequences. But he is gone now. She must eat the cake by herself.

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T 5433

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

I yelled some inspirational words and charged forth. No one followed me. It’s not worth it, one of the men said. Then our enemies killed us.

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T 5432

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

The deal awaits the finality of their signatures. You’re quite agile, one of the men says. That’s what I tell my wife, the other one replies.

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T 5431

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

The sun beat down relentlessly. He took off his shirt to cool off and she said, I thought I recognized you, and she pinched his third nipple.

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