My story "How I Started Going to Meetings" is this week's featured story at Necessary Fiction, which has quickly become one of my favorite online magazines such launching in (I believe) February. They've published stories recently by Peter Markus, J.A. Tyler, Stefanie Freele, David Erlewine, and many others, including Kathy Fish, whose story I wrote about during Short Story Month here. I'm very excited to be included among such great writers, and on such a great site.

Here's the beginning to "How I Started Going to Meetings":

How I started going to meetings is something I never told you, because it happened a few years ago to a person who is less me, less the person I am now, this person who until recently you had strong feelings for.

Those are your words: Strong feelings.

Now I have decided that I want to tell you, because I do not want to run into you again weeks or months or years from now, with her on your arm, and have this story still untold between us, because this is a story about what happened to us even though you're not in it.

You can read the rest of the story here, and I hope you'll also check out the archives at Necessary Fiction, which now have several months worth of stories to enjoy. Thanks to editor Steve Himmer for taking the story, and for working with me to get it into its published form. I'd actually cut away a framing device that hurt the story, and he managed to see and point out that something wasn't working anymore. I added back in a slightly different version of what I'd cut away and it really made a big difference. Thank you, Steve!