Twisters

T 6328

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 16, 2013

We ate and ate and fell into the inevitable food coma and I said, We’ll pay for this. And we made noises like distressed mammals before bed.

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T 6327

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 16, 2013

So this is it, he sighs and he folds the blanket. She watches, bemused at how times have changed. She’s happy. While he’s folding a blanket.

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T 6326

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 16, 2013

The sand got into my shorts. I’m itching in bad places, I said. Can I help? she asked. But I learned everything in hindsight. Like an idiot.

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T 6325

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 16, 2013

He picks at the fries. He can’t eat them and he resents her for it. She says, It wasn’t my fault. But the fries remain uneaten. Mocking him.

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T 6324

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 16, 2013

We sat down to dinner and ate in a funereal silence. Then suddenly we were yelling at each other. And then we enjoyed some pies for dessert.

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T 6322

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 16, 2013

I used to have chickens, he said and she stopped chewing and said, Eeew! and he said, They escaped silly, and the trust issues started then.

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T 6322

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 16, 2013

The cab pulled up. We both attempted entry. She said, The nerve. So I let her take the thing, but only because she sounded so old-fashioned.

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T 6321

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 16, 2013

I looked at my son. I’d been feeling badly about things. You’re the future, I told him. That sucks, he said. He still had his sense of humor.

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T 6320

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 16, 2013

The sound seemed closer. He got out of bed and put on some pants. He went outside and then returned to bed. It’s just our echo, he told her.

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T 6319

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 16, 2013

This was not love, and he told her so. I don’t know what I am, he admitted. He felt crushed. Less human. I take credit cards, she clarified.

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