Tagged: Guys (1,814)

Twister 762

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He liked his steak rare. He robbed convenience stores when he could. He treated his girlfriends brutally. And he still lived with his mother

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Twister 810

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He wore his trucker cap like a crown. Some called him King, around here at least. But in the next neighborhood everyone called him the Queen

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Twister 842

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The wind took the toupé and deposited it on her lunch. She screamed. He came running over, ashamed. She berated him and hit him with a stick

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Twister 903

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He finally broke down in the locker room, the day’s immensity weighing on him like an extra long anaconda. I’m not the bigger man, he wailed

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Twister 949

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He watched the phone ring, her number on the display. He still harbored some resentment. Plus, there were two on in the bottom of the ninth.

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Twister 1006

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The water tasted bad. He was thirsty but not desperate. So he opened the drawer and found his emergency flask and began the day with bourbon

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Twister 1104

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He wants to have one of everything at the bar. Alphabetically. But he never gets beyond the Bloody Mary. It reminds him too much of his mom.

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Twister 1164

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He wears the lime green golf shirt proudly, his belly tugging at the fabric. His children call him dad. But his wife has stopped calling him

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Twister 1205

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He had a thing for opera singers, but the thin kind not the ladies shaped like linebackers. He was also lonely. And ate way too much garlic.

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Twister 1268

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He hated being married to a surgeon. It made his laziness look much worse. Or so she said. Until he took his pants off. And all was redeemed

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