T 5125

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
She sold real estate. The imagining of strangers’ lives. She liked saying “And this is the bedroom.” She always said it with a wistful smile
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T 5124

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
And then the monsters took him to their underwater lair. And he was terrified and he pissed himself but he was underwater so no one noticed.
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T 5123

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
He woke with an awful hangover and said, I’m going to be cranky, and she made him a coffee and said, Today? and he said, Forever, and he was.
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T 5122

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
He gives her some chocolate and pours a glass of port and he says, I love mythology, and she leaves and he creates some mythology of his own.
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T 5121

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
They held each other, and she said, Don’t ever let me go, and he said, What if I have to go to the bathroom? and she didn’t know the answer.
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T 5120

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
She says, I know what you’re thinking, and he shrugs since he’s not really thinking anything, he’s a guy. And then the thoughts of football.
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T 5119

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
Some of the things were shiny and some were beautiful. The boy was trampled in the rush to grab the shiny stuff so he chose beauty. And won.
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T 5118

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
It had been so long for him that he didn’t quite recall the proper etiquette of the situation so his sincere thank you reeked of desperation.
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T 5117

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
She was an artist. He brought her flowers and she cut them up with scissors and scattered them across her coffee table and said, You love me
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T 5116

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 13, 2011
We went out for Chinese and afterward on our way back to the car I let loose a fart, and she laughed and then we went out for more Chinese.
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