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Twister 573

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The dog found a mouse in the yard and ate it. I’ve been meaning to trim the bushes, he says. The neighbor laughs. Not those bushes, he says.

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Twister 739

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The carnage of the breakfast table is belied by the silence of a sated couple who have locked their kids in the basement a few hours longer.

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Twister 972

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

There was no hiding the yardwork from the neighbors. Too many video cameras out to deny the nudity. But dark enough to deny everything else.

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Twister 1306

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

There was a cult-like chanting in the distance and Jones followed it and found your typical suburban swingers party with sinister undertones

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Twister 1439

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Joan looks up from her book and looks at him. What did he say? she asks. But he’s lost in the tv. It was sexy, she says. Pump fake, he says.

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Twister 1540

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She wakes up and hears him in the shower. She is cocooned in the sheets, a butterfly about to be born. And then she rolls onto the wet spot.

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Twister 1818

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He watches her fix the bookshelf with a bemused kind of love. He can’t believe how much he loves this woman. You’re doing it wrong, he says.

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Twister 1955

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The entire house smelt like burnt rubber. It hurt to breathe. He opened the bedroom door. And that is how it’s done, he said with authority.

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Twister 2388

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He admired his moustache in the mirror. He found it stately. He turned around. His girlfriend was on the toilet. I said get out! she yelled.

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Twister 2572

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He hears the neighbor farting in the backyard and he laughs and hears a woman’s voice say “Excuse me,” and he get turned on and goes inside.

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