Tagged: Guys (1,814)

T 4794

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

The river flowed past them on its eternal search for the sea. He cast his line. Then his son farted. Remember that, he said. And the son did.

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T 4786

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

I remember when I used to make fun of the girls, with their everything’s cute thing, but what could I do? and so now I’m picking out drapes.

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T 4785

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

Love was possible until she saw his collection of folk music, and the beads hanging on the doorway to his bedroom, and he took off his pants.

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T 4781

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

He was a large man exiting a pharmacy with a giant pack of toilet paper. He knows this. But she’s sexy. Normally I’m charming, he tells her.

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T 4778

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

And the PR girls giggled insincerely but he craved attention and love and they hugged him and they were cold but in his mind they were warm.

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T 4773

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

I want to bathe in the fountain of youth, he tells her, taking her hand. You seem young to me, she says. He sighs. But I smell old, he says.

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T 4772

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

He heard news about the end of the world. He left his family and had a lot of sex on Ibiza. The world didn’t end. Until he tried to go home.

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T 4769

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

He felt young again, like some guy in a Viagra ad, and as he attacked the girls’ jump rope, he tripped and fell and the girls laughed at him.

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T 4767

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

The trio played some dirge-like thing and he was soon snoring. His wife elbowed him in the ribs. He awoke, looked around, and said, Fuck it.

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T 4765

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

The child’s wail fills the house with sadness. What did you say? she asks her husband. I called him the super hero of being stupid, he says.

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