Happy Birthday To Me

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 16, 2012

I started this website a year ago because I read somewhere that there were upwards of 400 million English blogs in the world and I wondered why I wasn’t one of them. (Actually, that’s not true – it had nothing to do with the number of blogs and I’m sure there are something like 450 […]

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Matchbook Stories

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2012

What happens when you about double the character count in a Twister? I don’t know. That sounds like nuclear physics. In the writing sense, however, you get a “matchbook story” – and apparently that’s what I’ve done. However, I don’t see any matchbook. Publishing a short story on a matchbook cover? That’s cool. Or it […]

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T 5626

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He told a joke and she said, That’s so lame, and then he got up and left and she watched as he walked away with that pronounced limp of his.

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T 5625

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He answered his phone and she could hear the exasperation in his breathing and he said, I’m busy, and he hung up and then his life was over.

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T 5624

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

I complimented her platform shoes and she said she had a clubfoot. I blamed my immaturity but she wasn’t buying it. Then I blamed my sexism.

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T 5623

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

She spent the day watering his plants. He’d said, Make yourself at home. That evening he took note of her work. I need my space, he thought.

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T 5622

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

I said sorry. She said, douche is French for shower. I said, I thought it was Polish for sausage. She gave me that look. I apologized again.

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T 5621

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He called her and said, I didn’t get it. Did you list ‘blogger’ as a job? she sighed. He felt humiliated. And tired. Did you? she demanded.

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T 5620

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

I ran over a squirrel. Dumbest squirrel ever, I lamented. My daughter started crying. Let this be a lesson, I said. I was winging it. Badly.

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T 5619

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

Stray dogs circled their house. This is ominous, he told her. She opened the wine. They know, she said. Because soon the howling would begin.

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