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T 6088

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

Underneath the dresser. In the corner of the room. I saw flesh. So long ago. I share this story as a lesson. What’s a magazine? my son says.

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T 6086

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The reporter was done, but he was still live on TV, and everyone saw him for how he was, and that night he ate dinner alone. It was so cold.

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T 6081

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

He finishes his tacos and the food court noise comes back to him and she gets up and says, Two more stores, and he says, I miss strip malls.

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T 6080

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

You are my happiness, she says, and this makes me so uncomfortable I have to undress. But I’m still uncomfortable. Take it back, I tell her.

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T 6079

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

He took off his clothes and walked into the ladies’ dressing room. They screamed and attacked him and he learned he wasn’t really invisible.

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T 6077

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The bartender poured me the bourbon. You’re cute, I told her. She looked around and said, I’m the only one here. I didn’t get a free refill.

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T 6071

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

He reaches into the bag of chips just as she returns from the gym, and he frowns and says, You make me feel lazy, and he takes another chip.

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T 6070

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

I brought you flowers, he says, and she blushes, and then there is silence. He looks at his watch. When do we take off our clothes? he asks.

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T 6062

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

The dog chewed my shoe. I went to the cobbler, and said, The dog chewed my shoe. The cobbler said, I’m a cobbler. Then we hugged each other.

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T 6057

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 5, 2012

And when she woke she said, This is the morning of my discontent, and I said, The night time is the right time, and then she forgot to laugh.

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