T 5365

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

She gives him a paper bag and says, My heart’s inside. He drives off with the paper bag. It flies out the car window. But he doesn’t notice.

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T 5264

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

She struggles awkwardly with the recycling bin. He wants to dismiss her. But can’t. Everyone will make fun of us, he sighs with resignation.

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T 5263

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

I was starving and ran into the kitchen and from the bedroom my wife yelled out, Don’t touch the ham! and I touched the ham and she left me.

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T 5262

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He brought her flowers and an expensive Pinot. She kissed him deeply. He said, My wife doesn’t love you like I do. And that killed the mood.

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T 5261

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He cups her foot in his hand. I don’t really need shoes, she tells him. He stands and says, Then what? She wishes she’d gotten the pedicure.

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T 5260

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He obsesses over the new girl in the office. One day she catches him smelling her chair. At least I wasn’t in it, she says. His heart aches.

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T 5259

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

They woke and she sighed and said, I feel dead when you kiss me. But he made lemonade out of that lemon and wrote a book. It sold very well.

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T 5258

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

After the argument we hugged and made up and she put her hands around my throat and said, I could kill you, and it sounded like she meant it.

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T 5257

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

The guy who got hit by a car wears a shirt saying “Weekends Are for Losers.” The paramedic says, Who’s the loser now? We’re all thinking it.

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T 5256

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

Theirs was a food court romance. A flirtation around cheap chow mein. Sip your soda again, he’d tell her. As she caressed his leg with hers.

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