Tagged: Family (813)

Twister 2935

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The kids play in the backyards, bubbling with laughter, shooting water pistols. Their fathers are busy in those same yards building fences.

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Twister 3144

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The kid comes home and utters a new word and the mother says, Where’d you learn that? and later that day she asks her husband what it means.

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Twister 3349

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

There was talk of his weight. Much discussion. Inquiries into his personal life. Questions about his diet. And then his mother said, Come in

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Twister 3491

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He stayed by the window waiting for her to come home. She’d been staying out late recently. He started crying. I’m becoming my mom, he said.

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Twister 3613

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

I just can’t live this way, he says. The children mill about, unconcerned. Someone announces something dreadful on TV. Me neither, she says.

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Twister 153

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He tells her he needs things she can’t give. She tells him to shut up and fix the stairs. You’re not listening, he says, searching for nails

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Twister 97

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The boy says, I want candy. You win some you dim sum, the dad says. That’s not appropriate dear, the mom says. Only look at me, the boy says

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Twister 241

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He felt a kind of freedom when she told him what to do. I’ve been a bad boy, he told her. Not now, dear, she said. Just take out the garbage

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Twister 258

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He couldn’t stand it anymore so he shot the TV. Now what? his wife asked. We could play cards, he said. You killed them last week, she said.

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Twister 430

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Andrew wanted to grasp the difference between his love of pork products and the love he felt for his family. And that meant more sandwiches.

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