T 6046

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The kids screamed through the museum and I watched them delight in their ignorance of art and I joined them and was kicked out of the place.

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T 6045

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

I woke and opened the blinds and my neighbor gave me a thumbs up and I closed the blinds, and put the house up for sale, and moved far away.

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T 6044

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We sat around watching television. Why can’t we do that? I asked. We live in a small town, I was told. And we sat around watching television.

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T 6043

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We crawled away from the wreckage and lay down in the grass. We were alive and nothing else mattered. Finish what you were doing, I told her.

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T 6042

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

He ordered a scotch. He opened his book. The bartender gave him his drink and studied him closely. You’re an ugly fellow, the bartender said.

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T 6041

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

They kissed for the first time, finally, and she looked into his eyes and said, Your cologne smells so weird, and he said, And so it starts.

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T 6040

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

I was on a crowded elevator. The fish I’d had at lunch did somersaults in my belly. My boss stood next to me. I might resign now, I told her.

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T 6039

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We argued about the difference between a boat and a ship, and whatever we’d seen in the distance disappeared, and we remained unsaved again.

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T 6038

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The bed looked smaller, and I said, This is unnatural, and she said, So? and suddenly I was hanging from the ceiling and singing show tunes.

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T 6037

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

She tends to vegetables, humming something happy. He falls out of the hammock and she says, Are you ok? and she doesn’t wait for the answer.

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