!link! | Blind Dating 2006

Leo tugged at the collar of his vintage Band of Horses tee. He’d bought it at a show last month. He wanted to seem authentic but not try-hard. The coffee shop—a proto-hipster joint called “Grounds for Divorce”—played a Sufjan Stevens B-side. A girl in thick-framed glasses and a shawl knit from actual cobwebs was reading a zine.

“Yeah,” he said, surprised. “That exact one.” blind dating 2006

“Well, I’m going to ask you anyway,” she said. “But I want the real answer. Not the cool answer.” Leo tugged at the collar of his vintage Band of Horses tee

Here’s a short story based on the idea of a blind date in 2006. ” he said