T 6139

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 5, 2013

He’s about to bite into his burger. He’s interrupted by a tall blonde. She says, I love your avatar. And he becomes nostalgic. Wistful even.

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T 6138

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 5, 2013

A men’s store. A smart red jacket. A minor disagreement. Escalation. Degeneration. Entropy. Violence. Blood. Interest. Tickets. Television.

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T 6137

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 5, 2013

We make love in a rote manner. Hold hands in the strip mall parking lot wearing our scratchy sweaters. And neither of us enjoys necrophilia.

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T 6136

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 5, 2013

She bites into her peanut butter sandwich. He enters the cafeteria. She is smitten and approaches him. While he goes into anaphylactic shock.

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T 6135

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 5, 2013

He built up the courage to call finally and he said, Let’s get some corn dogs and go to Space Mountain, and she felt wet in the right place.

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T 6134

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 5, 2013

I look at my room and think, I want to be a minimalist, and then I open my laptop and there’s more stuff to buy, and my wishes are thwarted.

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Not Another Year in Review Masquerading as a Year in Review Review Thing

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 2, 2013

I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. I haven’t in a long time. I’ve pretty much kept the last resolution I ever made: to never eat green peppers again. Green peppers are filler in bad Chinese food (that is “bad bad” Chinese food and “bad good” Chinese food and not “good bad” Chinese food) and gum […]

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New Short Story Published at Joyland

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 22, 2012

To celebrate the start of winter, or not – this is very subjective – I have a new story published by the great people at Joyland, called Cold. I’m lucky to live in a place that still has winter (I kind of like it) though it doesn’t have winter enough. We used to get a […]

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For the Love of Paste

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 20, 2012

I made Paste’s best Twitter accounts list again. Second year in a row. This year, I hope I receive a t-shirt at least. Or a squeeze toy.

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The Media Starts Here

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 7, 2012

The book media has started to pick up on the novel, or at least the signing of the deal. It’s early yet, but it’s nice to know people are taking notice. I also like the very short synopsis ECW came up with: Waiting for the Man is about a dissatisfied copywriter who becomes a media sensation by […]

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