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T 4764

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

They sat around the TV making snarky remarks and he said, Dumb asses should make a TV show about me watching TV, and she left him that night.

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T 4763

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

The ship landed gently on the moon. He looked at Earth and it was so small, and suddenly he felt big. Large. I love this feeling, he thought.

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T 4760

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

He ate the apple and every bite stuck between his teeth. He took out the pushpins and used them as floss. Until his boss entered the office.

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T 4757

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

She stopped talking and looked at him and he noticed, and he said, I was not picking my butt, and she just nodded and the meeting continued.

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T 4756

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

They sat down to dinner. His daughter said, I’m going to Thailand to study modern primitives. He thought one thing. But he said, Salt please.

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T 4752

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

The sterility of the lawyer’s office. She signs the papers. He looks at them, taking in their finality. I have to poop, he says. And leaves.

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T 4750

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

Inside my room. Behind the dresser. Underneath the week’s laundry. That’s where I hid my porn from my mom. I never told her. Now I miss her.

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T 4748

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

They retreat to the salon and he sits and says, I’m hungry, and she laughs, and he says, Really, and she says, Get your clothes on and leave.

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T 4247

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

The in-laws were over and he stayed in the basement and played video games with his kids and then the in-laws left and he went back upstairs.

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T 4245

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 10, 2011

He’s trying to teach his son about hard work. Above them, birds fly effortlessly riding the updrafts. I’m never going to flap, the son says.

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