T 5135

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
The closet is full but he feels as if he has nothing to wear. You’re such a dandy, she says sleepily from bed. But he’s not. He’s just vain.
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T 5134

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
The fight. Everyone talks about it. There is lore. But mostly everyone talks about the pee. And the cameras. And how awesome the website was.
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T 5133

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
He kissed her and made a face and she said, You look like you kissed a lemon, and he thought and thought this through. And he couldn’t move.
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T 5132

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
The sand warmed his feet and the chill he’d left behind left him. The ocean smelled of life. Of hope. Until his wife noticed the cabana boy.
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T 5131

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
An out of control lawn mower. This explains so much, he says, sulking over a whisky. His blood pools on the floor. And the day’s just begun.
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T 5130

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
She says, I’ll get you. And then comes the fall. Then the winter. And the spring. And then the summer. And then she knees me in the gonads.
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T 5129

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
The boy looks up his mom’s dress and says, I came from there? and she says, Not the way your dad tells it, and that night’s dinner is lively.
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T 5128

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
In the morning over coffee she talks about the insignificance of life and all living things and he feels sad because he takes it personally.
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T 5127

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
The father yells, You can’t eat bagels in this car! and goes on to recount the trajectory of his life. His daughter says, This isn’t leather.
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T 5126

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
And she said something that killed him and he said, Oh yeah? and he threw his cellphone into the woods and he felt a crushing sense of loss.
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