Twisters

T 6069

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

He stepped out to the yard and handed her a gin, and she said, Gin makes the grass greener, and he laughed and said, Yesterday it was vodka.

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T 6068

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

She took his hand and she kissed it and she said, Do you remember all the sex we had when we were younger? and he looked at her and said, No.

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T 6067

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We journeyed to the planet and declared it fit for humans and returned home. At the press conference I said, No one talks about the plumbing.

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T 6066

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The cakes are displayed with great care. All of them with raisins. Which I hate. That’s so mean, I say, to no one. Because I had baked them.

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T 6065

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We prepared for every kind of eventuality and she said, Blink if you agree, and then she kissed me and I could not even open my eyes anymore.

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T 6064

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

We picked dandelions and wished for things that would never come true. This is bringing me down, I said, and she smiled and said, Like magic.

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T 6063

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

I checked in to the hotel and was shown my room. I said, What’s that? and the bellman said, That’s a bidet. And then a funny thing happened.

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T 6062

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The dog chewed my shoe. I went to the cobbler, and said, The dog chewed my shoe. The cobbler said, I’m a cobbler. Then we hugged each other.

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T 6061

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The magician waved his wand. Nothing happened. He looked into his top hat; the rabbits were being rabbits. I’m old, he said. To no applause.

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T 6060

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

After the date I called my mother and I said, I think I want to father her children, and my mother reached through the phone and slapped me.

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