T 6103

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The food is this side of poison. Mom please, I say as she refills my bowl. She pats my head. Now tell me about your life insurance, she says.

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T 6102

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

And then she reached for her cigarettes and he said, That was great, and she lit a smoke and he cleared his throat and she said, I heard you.

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T 6101

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The astronomer says, I couldn’t stand him any longer, and then she says, I banished him like Pluto, and then she sighs and says, Is it cold?

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T 6100

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

I’m sleeping with a midget, I told my friend. It’s not weird because she’s middle aged, I added. We finished our beers. And our day was done.

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T 6099

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

These were the noises we heard: insouciance; deliberation; arrogance; temerity. We quit breathing in order to live. Until the kids ran away.

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T 6098

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

They were both tired, the fight a tax on their energy. You don’t listen to me, he sighed. She ignored him. Maybe I’ll start a blog, he said.

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T 6097

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We were drunk on Saint Emilion and comparing notes on the best places for foie gras, and we stopped laughing and realized everyone had left.

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T 6096

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

He bites into a lime and scrunches his face. He says, Like that. She blushes. Take the compliment, she says. He’s never felt more like a man.

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T 6095

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

I don’t care about you, I told her. She said, I don’t care for you, either. I don’t care even more, I replied. Then we made some crazy love.

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T 6094

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

And she said, Why are you crying? and he moved away, and then she put her hands on him and he moved closer, and she said, You’re such a man.

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