20/10/2022
A short story to set our Issue 15’s theme: “Almost” in motion
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“But also, what the story is about is about this guy who can’t work up the nerve to talk to this woman sitting on the same train car as him. And in fact, 60 years pass … he’s paralyzed by this idea of who this woman is even though he never actually talks to her. It’s almost like he creates this fantasy in his head, and in some ways, the tension of the fantasy is more exciting than actually talking to her. And I realized I was kind of living that afterward, where I felt like the fantasy of the mystery around me is so much more interesting than if people actually got to know me and see: Oh, it’s just some guy who wrote a thing.”
- Raphael Bob-Waksberg on his story “Missed Connection — m4w,” which first appeared as a missed connections post on Craigslist
