Tagged: Food (993)

T 4111

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 8, 2011

The hotel is expensive but still the walls are thin. The couple next door sound like rutting pigs. I’m turned on, he says, dreaming of bacon.  

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T 4107

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

A gentle wind messes her majestic hair, and she says, I like cherries, and he feels a crippling weakness, and blood in all the wrong places.

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T 4103

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

He burnt dinner and the fire alarm went off and the door bell rang and he yelled, Fuck! and she heard him and smiled. She’d brought take out.

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T 4102

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

Then one day the marriage stopped working. Both of them new it. When did this happen? they wondered. He figured it was last week’s pot roast.

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T 4096

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

He points to the fish tacos and says, What’s that? and she says, You’re too foreign for me, and she learns something shameful about herself.

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T 4084

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

The ball thrown to his son. The miss, and the broken nose. Much commotion. Womanly outrage. A whispered promise. Male bonding over ice cream.

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T 4071

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

She made him insecure. So one day he asked, Do I bring anything substantial to our relationship? She nodded. You bring me cookies, she said.

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T 4069

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

The children are relentless, as children often are. She dreams of tequila and burritos and turns to her husband and says, Let them eat cake.

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T 4067

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

He says, My lips are on fire, and she kisses him, and then she realizes that he has just eaten some chilis and now her lips are on fire too.

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T 4063

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

I’m going to grill a pork chop and pour myself bourbon and smoke a cigar on the patio. Because that’s what I do each time my wife leaves me.

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