Tagged: Home (473)

Twister 948

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They came home to find a giant turd on their dining room table. They called the cops. The mystery remains. So they’re eating out now. A lot.

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Twister 1242

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The sun exposed the blemishes of the yard. He knew the neighbors would complain again. But that run giant down statue of Madonna was staying

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Twister 1407

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Gary wished for a happier ending this time, something that might promise the richness of fulfillment. He waited. And then she asked him in.

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Twister 1528

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He waited and waited for her and went back upstairs and she was just doing her hair. She smiled at him. That’s not love, he said, forlornly.

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Twister 1790

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

James walks into the den and there is canned laughter playing and he says, What did I do? and his brother says, You know! And then they hug.

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Twister 1935

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She walked to his house and rang the doorbell and he opened the door. So I brought the donuts, she said. He took off his pants and lay down.

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Twister 2374

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He watched her working in the garden, her love of dirt, the maternal labor of the soil. It moved him. But he was still leaving after dinner.

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Twister 2540

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He came down for coffee and she said, What’s this? and he said, I don’t want to shave again, and it was then she knew the marriage was over.

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Twister 2713

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She brought home a chandelier she’d found at a yard sale. She placed it on the table and he got up to take a look. Don’t break it, she said.

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Twister 2929

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He steps out of the shower and she enters the room with two glasses of wine. The folly of civilization, he says. Give it a rest, she replies

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