Tagged: Family (813)

Twister 2664

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The bird fell from the sky and landed at their feet. He wasn’t ready to teach his kids about death. So he told them the bird was just stupid

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Twister 2866

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He remembers sucking on lolipops, and the softness of his mother’s bosom. Memories that marked him. He tells his wife by way of explanation.

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Twister 2947

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

As she walked out on him she remembered her sixth birthday, when her father had yelled: You don’t deserve cake! This nursing home would do.

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Twister 3148

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He looks at her fingers and imagines her ugly toes and is reminded of his mother and her cutting words and he ends up ordering another beer.

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Twister 3385

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The boy poked the baby with a stick. Honey, don’t do that, his mom said, giggling. The baby didn’t move. The mother closed her bedroom door.

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Twister 3515

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She worries him. Because she turns him on but he thinks she looks like a boy. And he feels helpless and he blames his mother for everything.

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Twister 21

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The cows ate the steak I had left on the dining room table. My kid thought it funny. I had to go to work. You’re disgusting, I told the cows

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Twister 24

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He ate the world’s largest pizza and then retired to an island in the Aegean. He married the local mayor’s daughter. His mother was so proud

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Twister 191

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He spilled rum all over his white pants as he broke into a crazed rumba. The stain looks like that thing on Gorbachev’s head, his wife said.

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Twister 108

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He downs his beer with authority. I’m going home, he says. My family loves me. He wobbles out and hails a cab. I need a burger fast, he says

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