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Twisters 3707

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He trudges the family to the photo studio at the department store. The photographer asks them everyone to smile. But that isn’t their style.

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Twisters 3703

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 15, 2011

He calls her therapist The Laxative because he feels shat on every time she goes. She says, Ew. He thinks she needs more work on her issues.

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Twister 16

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

It’s grim; the blues are all wrong. This ain’t a home renovation, she thinks. She wants a soda. She calls her husband. I hate you, she says.

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Twister 634

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

When the guests had gone, he surveyed the room. He felt panic, then resignation. There was nothing he could do to save her precious flowers.

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Twister 776

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He hated the smells of his apartment building. The weird foods and stale smoke. The knowledge that everyone was having more fun than he was.

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Twister 995

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Inside the house toward the back, under the stairs that leads to the basement. I peed there once. I pierced a nipple there. And I hid things

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Twister 1328

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The kids avoided the house at the end of the street. The people who lived there were nice but the lawn was awful. And the kids had standards

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Twister 1467

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He complained about the dog and the neighbor said “sue me” and he said “C’mon” and built a squadron of cannons instead. It just felt better.

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Twister 1603

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

After the kids tracked mud through the house and the dog crapped on the floor he went up to his wife and said, We totally live in a cartoon.

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Twister 1827

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

After the guests had left, they made a weak attempt at cleaning up. He took her hand and said, Let’s. And she turned on the TV and said, Not

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