Stories from
July, 2010

Standing shoulder-to-shoulder watching their car lifted by the tow truck. It’s not a birth or a funeral but it is a milestone.

Steve Beck is the founder of OnlineRock. As time permits, he records with Julie Cornett under the band name Needle.

He meant it when he said it. But that was last night. Things were different in daylight. Now he was pretty sure he didn’t love her anymore.

Pat Tompkins writes from Northern California.

I told the chef, at the macro cafe in Jingumae, “Tokyo is a lonely city.”
“Maybe,” he said, “but every city is filled with lonely people.”

B. N. Landry lives in Austin, Texas. You can find more of his very short fiction on Twitter. Just follow @ShortestFiction.