T 6086

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The reporter was done, but he was still live on TV, and everyone saw him for how he was, and that night he ate dinner alone. It was so cold.

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T 6085

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The chef took the muffins out of the oven. He stared at them lovingly. How cool are my muffins? he said. But nobody was there to answer him.

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T 6084

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The dinner was large again, huge in fact, and I said, I love you but you’re making me fat and unattractive, and she smiled and said, I know.

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T 6083

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

Loving your daughter’s like swimming in a whirlpool, I tell the tiny man. He climbs up on a chair and calls me over and kicks me in the nuts.

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T 6082

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The bouquet lies between us, a reminder of better times. Remember when I gave you that bouquet? I ask. She picks it up to throw at me again.

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T 6081

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

He finishes his tacos and the food court noise comes back to him and she gets up and says, Two more stores, and he says, I miss strip malls.

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T 6080

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

You are my happiness, she says, and this makes me so uncomfortable I have to undress. But I’m still uncomfortable. Take it back, I tell her.

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T 6079

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

He took off his clothes and walked into the ladies’ dressing room. They screamed and attacked him and he learned he wasn’t really invisible.

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T 6078

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We will break all the things tomorrow, I promise her, and a wistful smile belies her impatience. We’re so good at breaking things, she sighs.

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T 6077

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The bartender poured me the bourbon. You’re cute, I told her. She looked around and said, I’m the only one here. I didn’t get a free refill.

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