Twisters

T 4845

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 2, 2011

She called him back and said, I can’t, and he asked why and she called him, Artichoke Heart, and that was supposed to mean something to him.

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T 4844

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 2, 2011

The plastic sheeting flutters in the wind. He knows he will never finish the house. He never finishes anything. That’s why he’s a good lover.

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T 4843

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 2, 2011

He downs the shot. I’m not impressed, she tells him and downs a shot of her own. He wants to fall in love with her. But she’s drinking water.

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T 4842

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 2, 2011

As a child he was bedazzled by the promises of riches that jammed his email. Then he learned that people lie. And he loved the internet more.

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T 4841

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 2, 2011

The shoes are new. He was proud of them. Before the walk and the thing he stepped in. Just wash them, his mother says. She never understands.

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T 4840

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 2, 2011

She gazed at her reflection in the mirror. I used to be good looking, she sighed. She turned and he was unmoved. Say something, she pleaded.

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T 4839

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 2, 2011

And then the big man said, I will eat my food and yours too, and I asked him why and he said, Shut up, and so he ate everything and exploded.

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T 4838

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 2, 2011

He pours water into her glass. He stares into the glass and the water pouring into it and it overflows onto her dress and he says, Say when.

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T 4837

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 2, 2011

They landed in the new land and went about naming everything and then new people came and gave things new names and there was pain and loss.

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T 4836

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 2, 2011

The new store sold everything. It was magical and made everyone who entered it happy. But she never found anything she wanted. And that hurt.

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