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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T 6066

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The cakes are displayed with great care. All of them with raisins. Which I hate. That’s so mean, I say, to no one. Because I had baked them.

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T 6065

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We prepared for every kind of eventuality and she said, Blink if you agree, and then she kissed me and I could not even open my eyes anymore.

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T 6064

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We picked dandelions and wished for things that would never come true. This is bringing me down, I said, and she smiled and said, Like magic.

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