Twisters

T 4024

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

She kept a journal. He read it and he kept this secret until she called him a big man. He called her a liar. And things were never the same.

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T 4023

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

He tells her he loves her. She says they will rewrite the Book of Love. He says he hates books. And she reaches for one and hits him with it.

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T 4022

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

And then with a cry she kicked him out of bed and this was the beginning of a rapid descent and all because he forgot to cut his fingernails.

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T 4021

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

The kid was all Yo this and Yo that and I said, Pull up your pants, and I went home and looked in the mirror and noticed the first gray hair.

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T 4020

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

It was Idiots’ Day at the office. Something about charity. But Jones never got the memo. Nobody believed him. Not that it made a difference.

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T 4019

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

She threw her plate in his direction. You’re going to hurt my soul, he sighed. And then she threw a goblet at him. How about now? she asked.

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T 4018

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

The alarm clock goes off and he sleepwalks to the shower and then walks to work naked and performs his tasks, and no one notices he’s naked.

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T 4017

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

And then he had to concede the thing, and he broke away from her and sighed and he said, I don’t like your meatloaf, and she started crying.

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T 4016

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

The couple sat on a park bench and kissed each other deeply. Why are you doing that? a boy asked them. Neither of them knew the right answer.

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T 4015

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

He put the sauce on a teaspoon and fed her and he said, This tastes of my love, and she imagined his love, and said, Then you need a shower.

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