Tagged: Food (993)

Twister 3310

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The depression set in and a day after she’d left he was staring at the Swiss cheese and thinking dirty thoughts. He didn’t even like cheese.

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Twister 3438

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He dreamt of a fire pit and an explosion and Nicholas Cage and he woke up and opened the fridge and threw the leftover meatloaf in the trash

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Twister 3552

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

And the meeting entered another dimension, where time didn’t exist and donuts had yet to be invented, and he stood and declared his insanity

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Twister 99

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They talked but only if provoked. He enjoyed the sunshine but wouldn’t cook for her. Are you illiterate? She asked him. That says half price

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Twister 140

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He tried to lift up a fridge and hurt his back. Twenty years later, he gets nervous when he sneezes. His allergy to hot dogs pisses him off.

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Twister 218

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

You’re so umami, he tells her. She doesn’t know what that means. She goes home and looks it up and says, I’m, what, an anchovy? Or Japanese?

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Twister 101

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He wrote a book called “50 Things to do While Getting Dressed.” He flew economy and packed light. He enjoyed sausage but he always ate alone

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Twister 189

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The autopsy performed, the doctor appeared before the family. It was a Twinkie, he told the assembled. And perhaps too much Hamburger Helper

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Twister 331

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

There was a forest and then a farm and then a subdivision of pastel colored houses. And the men barbecued meat and hid their disappointments

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Twister 158

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He doesn’t know how to buy towels. He would ask for help but he doesn’t like to show weakness. He retreats to the comfort of the food court.

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