Twisters

T 5437

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

One day he says to his wife, I will no longer speak. And she says, Are those your last words? And he shrugs. And keeps her guessing forever.

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T 5436

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

Then she sighed and said, Tell me a story, and he stood up and said, The end, and she appreciated how appropriate his story was and she left.

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T 5435

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

He takes her hand and they share a moment and then she says, Did you wash your hands? and he starts laughing and he says, I didn’t even pee.

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T 5434

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

She laments the speed with which it has unspooled. The law of unintended consequences. But he is gone now. She must eat the cake by herself.

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T 5433

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

I yelled some inspirational words and charged forth. No one followed me. It’s not worth it, one of the men said. Then our enemies killed us.

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T 5432

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

The deal awaits the finality of their signatures. You’re quite agile, one of the men says. That’s what I tell my wife, the other one replies.

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T 5431

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

The sun beat down relentlessly. He took off his shirt to cool off and she said, I thought I recognized you, and she pinched his third nipple.

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T 5430

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

He is too drunk to notice the cut of her dress, the way the fabric touches her in a way he can’t. But the dress is not for him. It never was.

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T 5429

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

His father went on and on about the Beatles and he wouldn’t stop and then one day he did and his kid started singing Happiness is a Warm Gun.

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T 5428

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 1, 2012

Hungry optimism followed by the frustration of hopelessness. The kids were stunningly impossible. These hot dogs had better be good, I said.

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