Twisters

T 3046

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Desperation sets in. Intimations of mortality, of a door closing forever. What was on that pizza? the fat lady asks. Then she starts to sing

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T 3045

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

The end of a hard day. She hurts with a ferocity that surprises. He brings home a pizza and dances a jig. Funny’s not in your DNA, she says.

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T 3054

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He stormed in to the diner and the waitress said, So? and he said, I would kill for a burger, and the cops found him a day later in a ditch.

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T 3053

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Her dress sparkled like shards of glass by the side of a lonely road. You look like trouble, her dad said. I smell like it too, she replied.

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T 3052

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He caught his parents in the yard and his mother put down the hose and said, You did not see this, and afterward the kid felt like an adult.

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T 3051

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

She offers him a whiskey and he’s trying to be gallant but his dinner’s coming up and his breath tastes vile. And she’s so damned beautiful.

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T 3050

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

Every question resulted in denial because the questions were loaded; but that’s the way things were now, especially since he’d gained weight

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T 3049

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

The boys sit around comparing familial tragedies and the new kid tells of the time his family ate bad lentils and were deported and he wins.

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T 3048

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He ordered the soup and she sighed. She had hoped for more of a man than he’d turned out to be. Later he used a toothpick. She sighed again.

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T 3047

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He harangued his daughter some more and then said, Pass the salt, and then the moment his daughter dreaded. Let me tell you a story, he said

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