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Twister 2494

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He downs the beer and walks up to her and says, I’m going to take you home, and she laughs and he leaves, dejected, back home to his mother.

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Twister 2560

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

So then, what, you won’t kiss me for nothing? For what reason? What good reason, I mean. Because you have none. Not a one…Except for that.

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Twister 2626

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He drinks his beer and asks for another. The bartender obliges. This goes on for a while. He goes home. And finds the wife still pissed off.

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Twister 2697

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They went to a movie and then for some dumplings, but he got bad gas and she said, Just don’t shit your pants, and he said, Now you tell me.

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Twister 2780

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The water is still, unbroken by the day’s crowds. They slip in and swim. And he starts to giggle. The water’s not pristine anymore, he says.

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Twister 2897

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He struggles up the stairs, weighed down by bags and bags full of whisky. And barbecue chips. And corn dogs. I’m such a small man, he sighs.

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Twister 2984

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Most of their problems could have been alleviated had he asked for directions. And he knew that she knew this. He was in for a lonely night.

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Twister 3102

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Men in expensive suits stand around talking sports. A young woman in a blue dress walks by. The conversation stops. And then starts up again

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Twister 3222

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He stands in the foyer absentmindedly picking his nose, thinking about his day. His life. His nose is full of stuff to pick. And so he does.

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Twister 3366

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She says, I spend my evenings in libraries. He has no comeback for this. I liked books once, he says, filling the silence with his yearning.

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