Twisters

T 3813

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Last call at the bar. She looks at him and sighs and leans over and puts her head on his shoulder and says, You smell as desperate as I feel

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T 3812

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

A dark, quiet house. The lovemaking is cathartic. Messy. He rolls off her and lets out a long breath. I’m happy we don’t have kids, he says.

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T 3811

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He took a pull off a beer on the wrong side of warm and she was speaking of the true meaning of love and he just wanted his beer to be cold.

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T 3810

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

They complained of boredom and this guy overheard them and said, Boredom is a sign of stupidity, and they looked at each other and shot him.

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T 3809

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

The leg was broken. The x-rays confirmed it. She held his hand as he waited for the plaster to harden. He smiled. I love new things, he said

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T 3808

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

She was the kind of mother that saw potential calamity in all of life’s transactions. And then her kids grew up and never spoke to her again

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T 3807

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

The lottery numbers didn’t come in again. His son came home and went straight up to his room. The cat hacked up a fur ball. Touché, he said.

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T 3806

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He parked and she got out and said, You coming? and he said, Not yet, and she knew: He’d been thinking about his second grade teacher again.

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T 3805

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Strong women, casually dressed, sporting pearls and rubies. Lounging in the yard, laughing, debating the merits of their husbands’ genitalia

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T 3804

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

They come upon a store on their walk and she says let’s go in and life can’t get worse for him until they enter and the store’s full of tofu

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