T 5694

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

He cooked all day. He wanted to impress her and she took in the spread and was touched. I’m going to pretend to like this, she said smiling.

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T 5693

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

He is a butcher. It’s what he does. The neighborhood ladies always ask him for the most exotic cuts of meat. But he can never satisfy them.

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T 5692

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

You are alone not lonely. I realize this as I watch you. Watch you read your books. Wash your dishes. I want to be alone with you. Let me in.

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T 5691

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

She walked toward my stereo and I must have made a face. What now? she asked. I tried to be diplomatic. I want to like you, I said sincerely.

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T 5690

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

The intensity of her love, of her being, paralyzed him. She would call him and say, Come to me right now, and he’d say, I can’t move my legs.

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T 5689

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

Inside their room a kind of hellish heat. How does this end? she asks him. With both of us happy, he replies. I don’t believe you, she says.

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T 5688

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

And then he sighed and said, I don’t have enough fun anymore, and she said, But we just did, and when she realized what he’d meant she cried.

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T 5687

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

He bit her neck. Do you know what love is? she asked, stroking his chest. He pulled on her pants. Guilty. Because he didn’t know the answer.

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T 5686

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

Day 1: They don’t leave the bed. Day 2: He ambles over the fridge. Day 3: He asks her to make breakfast. Day 4: She admits that she faked it.

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T 5685

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 3, 2012

He woke, still inside his dream, and closed his eyes again. He wrapped the covers around him like in a cocoon. He farted. He got out of bed.

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