Tagged: Family (813)

Twister 937

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He listens to the sounds from the living room, the cartoon violence of the video game, the mirth of teenagers. And then he hears the sirens.

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Twister 1037

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

And here are the fathers, with their unecessarily complicated lives, sitting under a tree, thinking about sex, watching their children play

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Twister 1220

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He thought about baseball. He imagined dead babies, his mother naked. He asked her to pinch him hard. It was still a terrifying two minutes.

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Twister 1312

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He ogles the young bikini-clad girls while holding his wife’s hand. This way, she says. Uh huh, he says. And she walks him into a rose bush.

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Twister 1387

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He begs them. He threatens. He cajoles. He bribes. And finally the kids are off to bed. And so he opens the freezer and takes out the vodka.

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Twister 1469

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The day sparkles with the shine of his contentment and it remains that way until his wife says, Let’s go the museum. And then darkness falls

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Twister 1572

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The more his wife became a vegetarian, the more he loved steak. We have a problem, she said. You have a problem, he said. Pass the potatoes.

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Twister 1716

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

When they built a glass partition down their middle of the bedroom she had insisted on frosted glass. Why? he asked. For the kids, she said.

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Twister 1842

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He looks at the sky and sees nothing but pain. His wife drapes her arms around him. Our vacation’s ruined, she sighs. Inside, the kids howl.

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Twister 2007

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

And when the whiskey tastes bland, Jim checks himself into a motel and closes the blinds. He cancels his appointments. And he calls his mom.

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