Tagged: Home (473)

Twister 628

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Stein watches the squirrels digging up his backyard. Supper’s done but his wife is late. On the radio, an endless parade of disquieting news

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Twister 754

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Atop the rise, the old house stands silhouetted by the evening’s last light. Inside, desperate men await on dusty couches, clutching c-notes

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Twister 990

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

When he received the silent treatment at home, he figured he’d done something wrong. But as usual he couldn’t think what that something was.

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Twister 1324

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The pebbles against the window startled the chickens and woke everyone in the house. We take this fresh thing way too far, he told his wife.

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Twister 1465

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She came downstairs and said “oh” and he took a pull of his beer and said “yup” and then the thing happened that changed their lives forever

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Twister 1561

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The umbrella was useless against the cold rain. He stood outside the house and a desperation set in. His wife hadn’t even given him a shirt.

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Twister 1821

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The sun didn’t come up today. He walks to the backyard and pulls at the weeds crowding his vegetables. He picks up his gun. And he fires it.

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Twister 2006

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He wakes to prepare for workday. He resents the silence of the house, the slumber that is not his. In the kitchen, he starts breaking dishes

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Twister 2435

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

As he shaves she runs in and sits on the toilet and lets forth her morning pee. Hi Pooky, she says, half asleep. I don’t get us, he replies.

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Twister 2588

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She comes home from work and sees him passed out on the floor and she shakes him and he wakes up and says, When did you buy all that cheese?

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