Twisters

T 5680

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

They emerge from the spa transformed. I’m in love with the massage guy, he admits. She isn’t that surprised. Is he cute? she asks hopefully.

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T 5679

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

He was wearing The tie. It was a signal, even if he didn’t know it. She wiped off her lipstick and put away the pearls. And ordered a pizza.

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T 5678

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

She underwhelmed him. He said, I hope you didn’t wax on my account. She found that presumptuous, even though she had waxed. And it had hurt.

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T 5677

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

The waiter placed the squid salad in front of her and she said, That looks awful, and he said, You ordered it, and so she didn’t ask him out.

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T 5676

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

He said, We’re not arguing, and she said, Could have fooled me, and he said, I just did, and they argued for real but about different things.

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T 5675

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

When she asked him why he had done what he’d done, he said, I want to taste the end of the world, and she said, That’s dumb, because it was.

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T 5674

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

I said, That might hurt my feelings. I said, That’s just the way I am. I said, You can’t make me. And then she made me. And I liked it a lot.

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T 5673

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

And I could tell she was into in me, and she said, What do you do? and so I said, I write advertising, and she laughed so hard she threw up.

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T 5672

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

You wouldn’t pay attention to me so I dressed better yet our distance grew, but between you and me I can’t do anything about the stupid gas.

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T 5671

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

He has an affair with a policewoman and one evening he asks, Is guilt illegal? Making my life miserable is, she says. He’s afraid of her gun.

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