Twisters

T 5802

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

That was a long shower, she says, and I smile my come-hither smile, and she says, Don’t do that. And then I realized I showered for nothing.

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T 5801

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

I started to dance my usual dance, and she laughed a throaty laugh and said, Where’d you learn to do that? and I got defensive. I always do.

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T 5800

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

I am lost in the brilliance of your smile, I told her, offering her a flower. Screw the poetry I want foreplay, she said. Then I felt tired.

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T 5799

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

He commented on her disposition. She felt the paternalism in his thought and kneed him in the groin. And he hallucinated his own happiness.

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T 5798

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

I wanted to tell her how I felt but my shyness got the better of me. I got a t-shirt made and wore it to our date. Do you have gum? it said.

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T 5796

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

She said, Let’s go to Europe. But she said it as if she were already bored with the idea. Let’s cut to the chase, he said. He was bored, too.

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T 5795

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

We argued about the smell in the room. It was an argument I did not want to have. I do not smell like this! she yelled. I couldn’t disagree.

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T 5794

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

I went to the washroom and read a magazine. I came out. And my home was now a giant bubble. It was a good magazine, I said. No one heard me.

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T 5793

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

We grappled in the mud. We called it foreplay and laughed and then she licked my neck. That was dirty, I said. No it was filthy, she replied.

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T 5792

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

He waits for her to get dressed. Her hair. Her make-up. There is no one to impress anymore, he complains. Everything is marketing, she says.

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