Twisters

Twister 158

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He doesn’t know how to buy towels. He would ask for help but he doesn’t like to show weakness. He retreats to the comfort of the food court.

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Twister 174

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

I freeze easy. It’s like my blood’s the wrong temperature. I’ve been this way since childhood. But it hasn’t stopped me from making friends.

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Twister 190

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Jones sits alone at the bar holding a paper bag. He downs his bourbon hard and lights a cigarette. I gotta get my tutu dry cleaned, he says.

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Twister 206

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They met at the intersection of pain and memory. I’m not moving, he told her. Neither am I, she said. So this is where we die then, he said.

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Twister 222

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

So I’m like all you know and like messed up and she’s like all that’s so cool, whatever and so we hooked up and shit and I woke up in Topeka

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Twister 238

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

My kid’s favorite expression now is, I couldn’t care less. And every time he says it I think of how much I used to love him when he was born

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Twister 254

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He is afraid of lawnmowers in a Stephen King kind of way. He sees one and is bowled over by waves of theremin. He tells his dog to hurry up.

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Twister 270

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She was influenced by the wrong part of the seventies. This meant she couldn’t wear a bikini without attracting a dubious kind of attention.

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Twister 286

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

That’s what I thought, he says. I’m not a math genius, no, he says. But I’m, like, uber-multilingual, he says, pulling up his pants, smiling

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Twister 302

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He was a clueless man and brought her dandelions. How old are you? she sighed. But you love yellow, he said. And they look like your pee pee

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