T 6043

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We crawled away from the wreckage and lay down in the grass. We were alive and nothing else mattered. Finish what you were doing, I told her.

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T 6042

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

He ordered a scotch. He opened his book. The bartender gave him his drink and studied him closely. You’re an ugly fellow, the bartender said.

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T 6041

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

They kissed for the first time, finally, and she looked into his eyes and said, Your cologne smells so weird, and he said, And so it starts.

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T 6040

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

I was on a crowded elevator. The fish I’d had at lunch did somersaults in my belly. My boss stood next to me. I might resign now, I told her.

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T 6039

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We argued about the difference between a boat and a ship, and whatever we’d seen in the distance disappeared, and we remained unsaved again.

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T 6038

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The bed looked smaller, and I said, This is unnatural, and she said, So? and suddenly I was hanging from the ceiling and singing show tunes.

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T 6037

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

She tends to vegetables, humming something happy. He falls out of the hammock and she says, Are you ok? and she doesn’t wait for the answer.

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The Endless Road to Publishing

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 16, 2012

I’m pleased to announce that my novel, Waiting for the Man, will be published by ECW in spring 2014. How did we get here? Well. It’s quite possible that there are sentences in this novel that are older than my son. Very few of them but I wouldn’t doubt it. My son is 12 years […]

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This is my signature on my new book contract (signed this morning)

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 31, 2012

Yes. It is done. I signed on the proverbial dotted line. For the novel. More news to come. If I said I wasn’t relieved I’d be lying. See this space for more information soon. What kind of information? Like the publisher. And the pub date. Stuff like that. The deets as we say. Who’s we? […]

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T 6036

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 16, 2012

He believed in destiny. He grew up certain of this. But when the woman of his dreams walked by, he was too busy composing the perfect tweet.

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