Twisters

T 5206

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

His life coach says, Find strength in your limitations, and this stays with him, and next morning he tells his wife, I feel so strong today.

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T 5205

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

He studies his reflection and says, I’m too fat for this shirt. She agrees. He admires her honesty. She knew he would. And he buys the thing.

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T 5204

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

She screamed and he stomped on the cockroach, and she said, My hero, too sarcastically for his taste, and that night the sex was mechanical.

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T 5203

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

And then she pulled off the highway and rolled into the buttfuck town there, and stopped in front of a bar and said, Get out, and I got out.

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T 5202

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

He moved into a part of town that was pre-gentrification. He threw a party but no one showed up, and he went out and bought lottery tickets.

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T 5201

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

She says, He’s like a donkey, and her friends giggle and attack their chardonnay, and they order spring rolls and then they laugh some more.

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T 5200

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

He remembers peeing out of a treehouse, all over the camp counselor. The trouble. And I hadn’t even started drinking yet, he tells the cops.

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T 5199

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

Needy men commiserating over a beer, desiring invisible wantings to want more and be wanted, but through metaphor, sports really, only that.

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T 5198

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

Call your grandmother! he yells at his son. I have no idea why he resents you, he tells his mother. We’re out of juice, he says to his wife.

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T 5197

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 18, 2012

He felt it everywhere inside of him but mostly in that one obvious place, he felt it there strongly, and he told her he was possibly in love.

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