Tagged: Guys (1,814)

T 5011

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

She became his hundredth ex-girlfriend. He said, I’m going to bake you a cake. At the bakery he met a girl. Who would become hundred-and-one.

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T 5007

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

He saw the complications, like some gaudy velvet curtain across the stage of his life, but she was interesting and he was bored. And stupid.

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T 5004

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

He watched the rise of the waters. Soon the river would lick his house. He missed his wife. Without her, there was no point in being a hero.

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T 5001

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

He says, I’m a dog person, and she says, Don’t smell me, and he doesn’t find that funny, but then he smells her, and now he understands her.

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T 5000

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

The sandwiches smelled funny, as did the washrooms. This is the worst conference ever, the professor sighed. He ate another sandwich anyway.

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T 4996

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

A lifetime spent fishing. He couldn’t wash off the stink. And his body hurt, but he kept at it. Because his wife was never a morning person.

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T 4995

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

I’m rich but not with money. With love. With joy. With life. But she’s having none of it. So I call her a Gold Digger. Then she beats me up.

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T 4983

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

He doesn’t know anything. He says this with pride. A badge of honor. But the wrong girls find him sexy. And he’s tired of all the shrugging.

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T 4980

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

He picked through his dad’s old clothes, awestruck. You’ve totally changed my life, he told him. And his dad looked at him and said, I’m gay.

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T 4976

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

No one had ever come on to him before but this girl didn’t have any lips. I have minimal standards, he told his friend. Who wasn’t as picky.

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