T 5245

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He opened the fridge and studied it. All we have is smelly cheese, he told her. We don’t even have that, she told him. He was sad to hear it.

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T 5244

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He made tacos and chilled an Alsatian reisling and was surprised by her apparent disappointment. Tacos aren’t trendy anymore, she said sadly.

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T 5243

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He was upset. His wife had left him for a woman with really bad skin. I’ve got the blues, he told his sister. But we’re Norwegian, she said.

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T 5242

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

The librarian was on the curvy side, and he couldn’t concentrate on anything else, and he said to her, You have nice books, and then he left.

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T 5241

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

It was that moment. When he realized the job was not for him. Even though he’d just started. You need to lie back down, the client demanded.

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T 5240

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He sat like a dude and she could see in the hole in his pants and then he approached her and he said, Hi, and she said, I have an open mind.

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T 5239

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

The ship approached. Our radio crackled, and I answered it. My ship’s bigger than your ship, the other captain said. Well, I could see that.

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T 5238

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

She calls me a gazelle and I figure it’s because I’m sleek and she says, No way, so I call her a snake and she says, I’d never call you that.

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T 5237

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

The emptiness he feels is a dormant volcano, a space he can fill with ill meaning things. Love is too random, he thinks. He thinks too much.

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T 5236

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He takes her hands in his. She says, look at your cuticles. But he doesn’t know what that means. And so he changes his mind about everything.

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