Tagged: Love (951)

Twister 2442

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They kissed and music welled up from somewhere. The sun shone brighter. And he stopped kissing her and said, What if I don’t like this song?

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Twister 2603

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The pillow fight went way too far. He watches nervously as she comes to in her hospital room. I don’t know how to flirt, he says teary eyed.

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Twister 2714

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

And when she said, We’re a team, he sighed and made a move toward the door, and said, We’re going to start talking about drapes, aren’t we.

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Twister 2866

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He remembers sucking on lolipops, and the softness of his mother’s bosom. Memories that marked him. He tells his wife by way of explanation.

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Twister 3044

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

When he woke she was gone and he felt relieved. He ate a bowl of cereal and checked his emails. And then he realized how much he missed her.

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Twister 3177

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

I’m either going out or falling asleep, he says. I’m living the dream, she replies. He laughs and simulates something and she says, You wish

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Twister 3334

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

They were both needy but they waltzed around the question of who was neediest. I’m needier, she said. He wondered if that could ever be true

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Twister 3439

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He asked the butcher to trim some fat off the steaks. His wife took his hand as the butcher picked up a knife. I’m feeling it too, she said.

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Twister 3551

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Those are my shorts, he tells his ex, her arm around the “new guy.” Take them off, he says. He knows she will. And that’s why he misses her.

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Twister 28

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She was a cheesemaker. He made macaroni. They met in a bar overlooking the sea. It should have worked. But she made the wrong kind of cheese

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