Twisters

T 3843

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

He never lived down the time he brought steaks to the stake out. When he mused out loud about becoming vegetarian, The Brotherhood imploded.

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T 3842

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

She was getting dressed and that took some doing. Mind if I smoke? he asked. You can burn the place down, she said, uninterested. So he did

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T 3841

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

The darkness was a wall that made objects go bump in the night. Because it was so dark. Except for the bats. They have sonar. That’s unfair.

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T 3840

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

A grand piano slipped out of a moving van and hit a car full of nuns and a newspaper ran a story about “dropping a load” and that went viral.

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T 3839

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

He ate everything. He ate the stuff he didn’t like and the inedible things and the gloopy objects and when he was done she knew he loved her

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T 3838

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

It had been a day of overwork and his brain was mushy so when he saw his boss he said, Nice legs, and she dropped him with a roundhouse left

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T 3837

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

Her hands circled the wine glass and he thought things that made him blush. She saw where he was looking and didn’t think he was man enough.

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T 3836

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

He says, Let’s take a long vacation. He suggests an itinerary of dreadful places. She wonders about him. She says so. It’s a start, he says.

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T 3835

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

Another anniversary passed, another thing forgotten. He knew he was sailing through life and the idea made him seasick. And that was stupid.

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T 3834

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

He wants suave to be a thing again, because he’s sure he’s suave. I’m also gallant, he sighs. Then she kisses him and says, You’re also gay.

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