T 6076

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We were drunk, stoned maybe, but we ate something dodgy and I ended up in a foul toilet. I didn’t come out until morning. And now I’m famous.

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T 6075

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The house smells of pie and I say, I love you, and she says, What did you say? and I catch myself because I fell out of love a long time ago.

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T 6074

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

She reads her book and she imagines better things and a perfect world and then she looks over at her husband and she says, You could be more.

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T 6073

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The air was thick with fog. I heard someone whistling. I searched the empty streets, and soon found him. He saw me. Cut it out, I told him.

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T 6072

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

He says, Get me a beer, and she gets him a beer, and then she cold cocks him good, and he gasps, Thanks for the beer, and she ices her hand.

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T 6071

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

He reaches into the bag of chips just as she returns from the gym, and he frowns and says, You make me feel lazy, and he takes another chip.

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T 6070

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

I brought you flowers, he says, and she blushes, and then there is silence. He looks at his watch. When do we take off our clothes? he asks.

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T 6069

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

He stepped out to the yard and handed her a gin, and she said, Gin makes the grass greener, and he laughed and said, Yesterday it was vodka.

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T 6068

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

She took his hand and she kissed it and she said, Do you remember all the sex we had when we were younger? and he looked at her and said, No.

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T 6067

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We journeyed to the planet and declared it fit for humans and returned home. At the press conference I said, No one talks about the plumbing.

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