Twisters

T 5459

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 2, 2012

He opens the closet and she says, Your clothes are on the bed already, and he sees them laid out, and she says, Don’t say it, and he doesn’t.

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T 5458

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

The rain came down and they took refuge in a small cafe home to the damp, dank and miserable, and she turned to him and said, Make me happy.

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T 5457

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

He picked up the ax and sighed. The tree was rotten from the inside. He had grown up with the thing. It had been a friend. And then he swung.

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T 5456

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

She stood by the jukebox and I stumbled over to her and she said, Got a quarter? and I passed out, and when I came to I was out of quarters.

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T 5455

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

You can tell a lot about a woman from the way she eats chocolate, he tells her. I’m allergic to chocolate, she replies. And he feels useless.

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T 5454

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

I miss the sound of white noise. Of waking to TV static, a constant electric waterfall. The lack of programming. The confidence that implied.

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T 5453

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

I didn’t say bum, he tells her, trying to diffuse the situation. Her anguish is palpable. You objectify me, she cries. I said bun, he says.

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T 5452

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

They could not find the island on any maps. What century is this? a young boy asked. His mother took off her top. I smell freedom, she said.

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T 5451

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

She says, Let’s make out, and he says, That makes me feel young again, and she pulls away and things get awkward, and then they order pizza.

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T 5450

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

It looked rickety but we got in the boat. And it took on water. So we had to swim. I told her I’d saved her life. She didn’t see it that way.

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