T 5538

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

The promise of a sun dappled room. He wakes and kisses her. You smell like a fish, she says. You’re so whiny, he replies. And the day begins.

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T 5537

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

The dust settled over the town. The sheriff said, We need a drycleaner or whatnot. His deputy held his gun tight. He felt change in the wind.

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T 5536

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

The cop enters the bar and orders a beer, and the bartender says, How do you feel about gay marriage? and the cop says, I’ve had a long day.

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T 5535

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

She watches as he cuts his toenails and listens as they ricochet across the floor. She wants to touch him. You teach me about love, she says.

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T 5534

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He opens the fridge and says, There’s nothing to eat, and everyone reacts with panic, and grandpa says, Back in my day, and the day is done.

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T 5533

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

Typically, the shopping cart with the broken wheel. Don’t buy that detergent, don’t. Oh, look, cracker samples. What is big box make-up sex?

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T 5532

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

And she suggested a picnic. And his friend called with tickets to the game. It’s not easy being a guy, he said. And she suggested a chablis.

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T 5531

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

She barges in to his apartment, takes an onion out of her purse and slams it onto the counter. Cut it! she cries. So he knows how she feels.

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T 5530

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He called his mother and he said, We’re in Zanzibar, and she said, Gesundheit, and then he realized that all the years of therapy had failed.

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T 5529

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

I could if you would but she won’t so I can’t. And then the ocean of her incomprehension meets the poetry of his selfishness and she leaves.

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