Twisters

Twister 2914

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He confuses perspiration and constipation to tragic effect and now gym isn’t fun anymore. When I’m an adult I’ll laugh about it, he thinks.

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Twister 2930

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They walked proudly, arm in arm, a couple that looked very much in love. Are you still smiling? he asked. This is hard to keep up, she said

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Twister 2946

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The window washer starts at the top, the 22nd floor, and works his way down. And then some guy on 19 dribbles a pot of coffee out the window

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Twister 2962

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Then he turned and kissed her suddenly, hard, and when he was through she studied his face and said, You don’t call that passive aggressive?

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Twister 2978

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He went clubbing and shimmied up to a beautiful something. But he didn’t know if it was a he or a she. And after a few hours he didn’t care.

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Twister 2994

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She bent over and picked the mashed potatoes off the floor and he studied her and offered to help and she said, But that’s how this started.

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Twister 3010

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He wonders if he’s ever been more irrelevant. And then a dog comes and pees on his leg. He laughs. Until he recognizes the dog as his kids’.

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Twister 3026

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The robots were humongous and tremendous. And they attacked and the men ran away but the women didn’t because the robots were love machines.

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Twister 3042

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He’d forgotten about the client meeting. He ran out and bought a nice suit. Thank God for coffee, he thought. Then the meeting was canceled.

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Twister 3058

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The cliff is sheer, a wall of rock shooting into the sky. He clings to a tiny ledge. Sorry you had to see that, he tells his partner, below.

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