Twisters

T 5397

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

We met in a casino, he tells her. He knows their lives will change now, and forever, and he can’t watch. At least she was free, he whimpers.

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T 5396

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

She sighs and says, You always think about sex, and he says, Not at all, and she says, So what are you thinking about now? and he says, You.

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T 5395

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

The meeting ends. Handshakes are made and everyone goes for drinks. There is talk of consummation. And they get a suite at the local Hilton.

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T 5394

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

The cork zooms right into her eye, shortchanging the celebration. I’ll never see again! she howls. But it was just prosecco, her father says.

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T 5393

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

He wakes her, and she says, What’s wrong? He says, Your son is using my razor. She says, He doesn’t need to shave. And then she understands.

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T 5392

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

They undressed. They stared at the water. It looks cold, he said. He steeled himself for her put down, but it didn’t come. And they dove in.

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T 5391

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

The philosophy professor said, I envy the inevitability of change. And then the boy scratched his head. We raised the price of eggs, he said.

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T 5390

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

I asked the carpenter’s wife about her husband’s adze and she slapped me, and I said, No I said adze, and so she slapped me that much harder.

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T 5389

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

And he pulled his pants down, and she sobered up and said, This is not going to work, and he said, Don’t judge me, and she said, I just did.

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T 5388

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

His boss walks into his cubicle and says, I’m having dirty thoughts about you, and hides her face. He thinks about this. How dirty? he asks.

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