Twisters

T 5741

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

She felt the ground shake. Was that an earthquake? she asked. He hadn’t felt anything and didn’t respond. Ten years later, she said, You bum.

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T 5740

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

He ran and kept running, and she got in a car and said, I’m here for you, and then she said, Why run? and he said, I don’t know how to stop.

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T 5739

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

He wakes, still drunk from the night before, and he opens a beer, and she says, Enough already. But he doesn’t know who she is, so he burps.

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T 5738

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

I’m going for a walk, he announced, and a month later he called his family from hundreds of miles away and said, These shoes are so amazing.

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T 5737

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

And after some small talk she excuses herself and then returns and he says, I want to kiss you, and she backs away and says, I just threw up.  

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T 5736

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

He lacked ambition. She didn’t realize the amazing depths of this lack. Of his not-wanting. I love you, he told her. But he never proved it.

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t 5735

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

We walked to the party because my car was in the shop and she said, But what will they think, and then I poked her bumhole and she said, Oh.

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T 5734

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

Dear Diary. Today the boys made fun of me again. They’re so dumb. One of them put gum in my hair. Why do they suck so much? Is my Mom a boy?

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T 5733

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

He called her on her cell. He said, I’m on fire. She said, I can’t talk right now. And he said, But I’m on fire. And then he burned to death.

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T 5732

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

He felt bad about what he’d done and he said, I’d tear my heart out for you, and she said, That’s gross, and he realized she wasn’t worth it.

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