T 5375

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

She drank back the cocktail and he said, Thirsty? and she said, You can do better than that, and there was silence, and he said, No I can’t.

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T 5374

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

She sleeps on his pants. He knows retrieving them might wake her. He takes a long objective look. And decides to go pantless into the night.

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T 5373

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He came to the party wearing his “I am Superman” t-shirt and bumped into his ex-girlfriend and she said, Still with the irony, and snickered.

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T 5372

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He grabbed the ax from the barn and went out and chopped the rotten tree. His son cried the whole time. I’m going to have issues, he wailed.

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T 5371

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He ordered a beer and the bartender said, Girl troubles? and he said, I’m so infatuated I got a hernia, and the bartender backed away slowly.

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T 5370

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

It was a warm day, and he felt the first stirrings of love. He said, Take off your shoes, and she did and he said, I like my women stronger.

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T 5369

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He didn’t want to be that person, the dark figure in the office parking lot, but he had a lousy parking spot, because he was bad at his job.

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T 5368

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He asks her why she won’t answer his email and she says, It must have gone into spam, and she notes his posture and says, It’s not symbolic.

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T 5367

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

His father smelled funny. It’s what he most remembered about him. He thought this as he washed his own son’s pants. About the power of genes.

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T 5366

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

And then he met her father. She had said she’d looked like him, and now he saw how true it was. They shook hands. You’re beautiful, he said.

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