Tagged: Food (993)

T 3738

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

They met under an oak in the woods behind their houses and ate illicit things and years later they met again and lamented what they had lost

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T 3734

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He takes a bite of the pie and moans and she sneers at him and says, What do you know about pleasure? and he doesn’t have an answer for her.

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T 3730

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

And then there was coffee, the exclamation mark to a remarkable night. He made some pancakes. She felt enchantment. Though she craved bacon.

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T 3725

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

They watched the kids eating. The mess they made. Remember when we didn’t have kids? he said. No, she said. He didn’t sleep well that night.

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T 3719

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He called it love, she called it heartburn, and into this breach stepped the doubt they had always harbored about the trendy new restaurant.

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Twister 3714

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He ran home and said, Look at all these free bananas, and she said, But we hate bananas, and he looked confused and said, But they were free

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Twister 61

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He burped up the souvlaki right in the dental hygienist’s face. She recoiled and made his gums bleed. He now knew he could not ask her out.

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Twister 113

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He bought her lemon yogurt when she had asked for vanilla. He’s not civil in the bathroom. She says, It’s almost as if you don’t care enough

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Twister 170

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

There used to be a park here. He remembers this but the memory is hazy. I also recall a Wendy’s, he says. And before that, a kind of school.

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Twister 438

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He was an accountant but stylish. He could do math in eleven languages. He spoke affectionately of a wife he didn’t have, sometimes for days

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