T 5394

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

The cork zooms right into her eye, shortchanging the celebration. I’ll never see again! she howls. But it was just prosecco, her father says.

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T 5393

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

He wakes her, and she says, What’s wrong? He says, Your son is using my razor. She says, He doesn’t need to shave. And then she understands.

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T 5392

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

They undressed. They stared at the water. It looks cold, he said. He steeled himself for her put down, but it didn’t come. And they dove in.

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T 5391

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

The philosophy professor said, I envy the inevitability of change. And then the boy scratched his head. We raised the price of eggs, he said.

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T 5390

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

I asked the carpenter’s wife about her husband’s adze and she slapped me, and I said, No I said adze, and so she slapped me that much harder.

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T 5389

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

And he pulled his pants down, and she sobered up and said, This is not going to work, and he said, Don’t judge me, and she said, I just did.

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T 5388

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

His boss walks into his cubicle and says, I’m having dirty thoughts about you, and hides her face. He thinks about this. How dirty? he asks.

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T 5387

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

Rehab plays gently over the pharmacy sound system. Pop culture doesn’t do irony, he thinks as he purchases another box of large size condoms.

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T 5386

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

The condo has the mustiness of a long life. The smell reminds him of his grandmother before her sex change. After that it was all Old Spice.

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T 5385

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2012

A gust of wind interrupts the picnic. He says, Now what. I got us ballet tickets, she says. He hears the laughter of his friends in the wind.

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