Twisters

T 4014

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

The sausage tasted off. Earlier, he had been stopped by a cop and he totally mouthed off. Now, waiting in the clinic, he knows who to blame.

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T 4013

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

We have enough people, the youngest man says. We have quorum, the oldest man harrumphs. And after the meeting the young man dreams of murder.

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T 4012

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

She couldn’t stop crying. She had misunderstood. He’d said, Dogmatic. And as he watched her suffer he decided not to try and clear things up.

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T 4011

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

I want to travel to a land where my smell won’t be considered funny, he says. Then that gesture she makes. And he knows she agrees with him.

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T 4010

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

The boy says, I wanna learn the vibraphone, and I know he’s just trying to piss me off. He says, I’m gonna like jazz, and that was my limit.

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T 4009

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

She can tell by his footsteps that he’s depressed. He enters the bedroom. What is it? she asks. Gray hair. In all the wrong places, he says.

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T 4008

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

The teacher says, I feel like eating bad Chinese, and he hears some giggling from the back, those bad Chinese girls, and he laughs a bit too.

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T 4007

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

He was agitated and this agitated her. She said, Calm down, and he acknowledged this, and he said, I can’t wait to go home and pick my nose.

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T 4006

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

He said, You’re girlfriend has a hot ass, something he meant as a big compliment but it wasn’t taken as such and he wakes up in the hospital.

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T 4005

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

We stepped out of the bar for a smoke, guys talking about important and trivial stuff, and then we returned to the bar and forgot everything.

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