Twisters

T 5639

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

I reached for the bill. I’ll get this, I said and she looked annoyed. I said, I won’t expect anything. And she said, That’s why I’m annoyed.

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T 5638

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

You want to call the kids fuckhead but you were one too, once, maybe you still are, plus you once said it was a bad word despite its beauty.

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T 5637

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

The sweater is too large. She says, You’ll grow into it. I tell her I’m an adult. We even do adult things together. Then she bakes me a cake.

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T 5636

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

I wish my new neighbor would put up her curtains. I enjoy watching her fix up her place. But I may fall in love and my wife won’t like that.

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T 5635

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

He posts photos of smokestacks and achieves internet fame. His dad stops loving him. Because jealousy isn’t old or new media. It is eternal.

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T 5634

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

She ate the last cookie and he made a face and said, Great, and she said, You never even ate one of them, and he said, That’s not the point.

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T 5633

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

He closed the windows as her yelling continued. And he started to laugh. I love you, he said. And then she stopped yelling, and laughed too.

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T 5632

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

I tapped the fish tank and the thing shattered. I just tapped it, I said. My friend scrambled to save her helpless fish. Just a tap, I said.

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T 5631

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

She shows him a photo of a goat in her book and he says, I wonder how that tastes? and she closes the book. And he says, Put it on your lap.

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T 5630

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

The marriage was coming undone in front of them. Let’s go buy something, he said consolingly. She said ok. Though she knew it wouldn’t help.

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