Tagged: Family (813)

Twister 3416

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The bear came inside and growled, and the family sat at the kitchen table, mouths agape, and the bear said, I’m not a morning person either.

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Twister 3537

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The commotion took over the neighborhood and he realized he needed to explain himself. “I like my kids,” he said. “I just don’t like yours.”

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Twister 1

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The kid looks up at the candy bar and wonders how he can get to the caramel goodness inside without waking up the asthmatic narcoleptic cat

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Twister 457

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The lawn reminds me of my fourth wife; feral but sort of beautiful. The grass needs cutting, my son says. Oh, it needs more than that, I say

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Twister 213

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Ted would have won a Nobel Prize someday if the dog hadn’t eaten his homework. That’s what his dad told everyone at his high school reunion.

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Twister 291

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Yes, maybe it was magic, he said. And yet I’m sweeping. Odd how the place isn’t magically cleaning itself up. The kid looked down and cried.

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Twister 188

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He was a failed decorator. He took up gardening but didn’t like getting grass stains on his white paints. He called his fat mother and cried

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Twister 466

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He claimed he didn’t steal the wallet. I filched it, he said. What’s the difference? his mother asked. A whole bunch of letter duh, he said.

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Twister 531

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They chewed on candies while waiting for their lawyers. There was tension in the room. Animosity. Hatred maybe. And soon, there was no candy

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Twister 622

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

It was how she said ‘inevitable’ that upset me. I didn’t hear anything afterward. Because I turned up the volume on the TV. Turned it way up

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