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T 4075

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

He watches her in the yard, working the soil, her dirty hands. I dig you! he says and she manages a smile. She knows it’s the best he can do.

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T 4068

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

The allergies kick in and now he can display an appropriate level of misery. Your mother was a good woman, someone tells him. And he sneezes.

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T 4065

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

The humidity descends upon them. He sweats profusely. You make me hot, he says. She’s heard this before. It doesn’t make him any less gross.

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T 4063

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

I’m going to grill a pork chop and pour myself bourbon and smoke a cigar on the patio. Because that’s what I do each time my wife leaves me.

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T 4060

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

The men discuss grill pans. A debate about non-stick surfaces. A woman sits back and watches. Is this what victory sounds like? she wonders.

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T 4059

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 9, 2011

She drops him off at the bar and says, I never want to see you again, and he laughs and says, You’re full of poetry, and she says, At least.

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T 4052

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

She called. She said, I need more love than you can give. He knew it but he didn’t like that she thought it. He didn’t say anything, however.

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T 4051

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

After the incoherent excuses were made she stared down at him watching him squirm, and she liked it and she said, Don’t move, and he didn’t.

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T 4049

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

He said, I love you, it just came out, but he couldn’t take it back, and he wanted to, then she smiled, and he introduced himself to regret.

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T 4045

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 24, 2011

And then the elevator stopped moving. He removed his jacket. He was surrounded by women. And he lamented the pathetic state of his underwear.

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