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T3870

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

He sneezed and something landed on her nice sweater and she turned angrily but he was so pathetic she fell in love and that didn’t last long.

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T 3865

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

And then she turned to him and said, That’s a nice vest. It is a nice vest, he thought. But she wasn’t pretty enough to admit that out loud.

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T 3862

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

They wore matching sweaters. She had initiated this as a test of his resolve. And when she said, Hold my hand, his humiliation was complete.

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T 3861

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

He is comforted by the familiarity of his hatreds, the warm blanket of malice. The loving embrace of confrontation. Eat your meat, dad says.

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T 3857

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

The food court Chinese lies limp on his plate. He watches her cut into her kung pao. The knife on styrofoam. I don’t get love, he tells her.

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T 3855

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 14, 2011

And she bit into the grapefruit, and said, Let’s go, and he sat transfixed and she said, What’s up? and he said, Bite into that thing again.

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T 3848

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

And it dawned on him that he lived in the shadows of love, in a place that was unreal and transient, and this made him feel more like a man.

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T 3847

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

The dude said something incomprehensible to everyone but the other dudes, and the only way the rest of us knew was because of the head nods.

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T 3845

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

He wears his age around the middle. She enjoys squeezing his belly affectionately. Until he starts jogging. Then she squeezes something else

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T 3843

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 21, 2011

He never lived down the time he brought steaks to the stake out. When he mused out loud about becoming vegetarian, The Brotherhood imploded.

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