This Must Be the Place
by Elly Bangs
At a bar, Andrea meets a loopy man who seems to already know her; he leaves a mysterious
message on a napkin, which turns out to be a hint about their next meeting where the man
is younger and no longer knows her.
— Michael Main
If I had the power to decide never to meet him again, I reasoned, surely I had the power
to change the course of the relationship for the better.
“This Must Be the Place” by Elly Bangs, in Strange Horizons, 2 February 2009.