It’s someone else’s dead end relationship

• Andre Dubus, “If they knew Yvonne”
• Jonathan Franzen, “Breakup Stories”
• Harold Brodkey, “Sentimental Education”
• Raymond Carver, “Careful”
• Adam Thirlwell, “Nigora”
• Miranda July, “Something that Needs Nothing”
• Adrian Tomine, “Shortcomings”
• Richard Ford, “Overreachers”
• Ved Mehta, “Kiltykins”
• Hanif Kureishi, “Midnight All Day”
• Stephen Elliott, “The Score”
• Jeffrey Brown, “Unlikely”

I can now add to this list, the first Tao Lin story I really liked.

• Tao Lin, “Relationship Story”

Also, I can finally say I’m cool.