T 5736

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

He lacked ambition. She didn’t realize the amazing depths of this lack. Of his not-wanting. I love you, he told her. But he never proved it.

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t 5735

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

We walked to the party because my car was in the shop and she said, But what will they think, and then I poked her bumhole and she said, Oh.

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T 5734

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

Dear Diary. Today the boys made fun of me again. They’re so dumb. One of them put gum in my hair. Why do they suck so much? Is my Mom a boy?

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T 5733

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

He called her on her cell. He said, I’m on fire. She said, I can’t talk right now. And he said, But I’m on fire. And then he burned to death.

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T 5732

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

He felt bad about what he’d done and he said, I’d tear my heart out for you, and she said, That’s gross, and he realized she wasn’t worth it.

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T 5731

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

When he spoke of love she was overcome with doubt and started biting her nails and he took her fingers out of her mouth and put them in his.

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T 5730

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

It was spring and the land turned green and then later it turned brown. And then it snowed. And everywhere, people complained. Just because.

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T 5729

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

Woah. Woe is me. Woebegone. I can go on. This merits a slap. Not so playful. You be the woman for once, she says. I have been. Just not now.

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T 5728

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

Birds scatter suddenly. A small dog barks. I ate a burrito, he apologizes. Your hands smell funny, she says. A black cat crosses their path.

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T 5727

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

She points to her bloody knee and says, Is this what you call love? and he says, It was an accident, and she says, And now I get what I want.

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