T 5314

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He calls the dogs again. Sensing the futility of his station he gives up. Where are they? his wife asks. Taking lessons from you, he replies.

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T 5313

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

I spent the weekend home alone and did nothing. Then why are you too tired for me? my wife asks. I don’ t have a respectable answer for her.

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T 5312

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He burned the eggs and she came over and hugged him. What’s this? he asked. I’m embracing your failures, she replied. And she hugged harder.

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T 5311

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He took her to the zoo. Which didn’t seem so romantic. But then, with ice cream in hand, he roared at the lions. I’m such an animal, he said.

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T 5310

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He came home from work. His son was on the XBox. His wife was hitting the booze already. My belly hurts, he said. It hurt him every evening.

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T 5309

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He hands her a rose and recites a poem. She laughs. Poetry’s overrated, he says. And then she falls in love with him just to prove him wrong.

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T 5308

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

I drank a coffee and went to the meeting and sat through a presentation and had a soda and then I raised my hand and said, I mistimed my pee.

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T 5307

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He wants to introduce himself to her. She’s tall. Athletic. But he doesn’t. Because her hands are dry. And he can’t trust a person like that.

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T 5306

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He finished the last of the burger. I need a new suit, he said. And he had one made. Then he ate another burger. And needed a new suit again.

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T 5305

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

And that’s the last time I got stoned, he says, and then he says, Abe Vigoda, and then she calls him a liar. And then he feigns indignation.

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