Twisters

T 3994

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

We lived well. And then we didn’t. There was a rupture. Some lives were ruined. Some more than others. She blamed me. For once she was right.

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T 3993

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

She hung up the phone and threw a paperweight at the wall and her mother asked her why she did that and she said, He lied about being brave.

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T 3992

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

An annoying sound filled the room; it was an attack beyond assault. And she held him and said make it stop and he regretted that last pepper.

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T 3991

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

The doctor makes the first cut and says, I really have to sneeze and then he sneezes and the anesthesiologist says, Wow, you weren’t joking.

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T 3990

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

And then after he had finished with brunch, he saw her across the way, and she was wearing sweatpants, and he walked up to her and said, Yes.

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T 3989

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

The old shoe salesman says, You’re going to give me a major foot fetish, and she blushes and takes her toes out of his mouth and says, Why?

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T 3988

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

They walk slowly, falling in love while the world swirls around them. You’d make a sexy girl, she says. That night, he has trouble sleeping.

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T 3987

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 11, 2011

The wind rose and he couldn’t make himself heard above it. He was saying something poetic and she thought he was complaining. He kind of was.

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T 3986

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

He lay on the couch sobbing, a child. I’m barely competent, he wailed, and his therapist looked at her watch and said, You have ten minutes.

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T 3985

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2011

They no longer speak to one another. Something about the definition of steak. The children play their video games. Thank god for headphones.

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