Tagged: Food (993)

Twister 225

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The venom was mild and only resulted in numbness. Was it a scorpion? the doctor asked me. No, I said. It was my mother’s baklava. Be afraid.

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Twister 322

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They don’t eat eggs here, she said. I don’t believe that, he said. Almonds were once the currency, she said. Put the guidebook away, he said

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Twister 7

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The t-shirt stretched across the enormity of his belly. Full trumps cute, it said. The restaurant owner closed the all-you-can-eat salad bar

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Twister 476

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

There was the hint of smoke but he said it was just the chipotle in the rub. You are so tough, his brother said. I know what’s what, he said

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Twister 506

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He wants his reality to be more like his dreams. He buys a waterbed and glow in the dark skin cream. And then he invents barbecue ice cream.

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Twister 593

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They breathed in the air and it was the air of teenagers. And chips. And maybe beer. This is all your fault, he said. I wanted to stay home.

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Twister 656

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He wakes up and seizes the day. He eats his Corn Pops with purpose. He turns on the TV with authority. He orders take out as if he means it.

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Twister 751

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

I don’t know how you live without any fruit, she says. Stop criticizing me, he says. You’re so sensitive, she says. I wasn’t joking, he says

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Twister 855

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The doctor kept talking and he zoned out and had a vision of endless fields of pulled pork sandwiches. After all he was getting ready to die

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Twister 951

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The ground rumbled. Jim stood immobile as the children raced past him. He closed his eyes in fear and prayed. The ice cream truck drove away

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