Femme and Sundance
ShortStory 5,677 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"I was 19 when I met Tommy. A day and a bit into a two-day Greyhound trip from bumfuck, Nevada to Saint Paul, Minnesota. Going to meet some trick from the internet. Thought it was true love. Funky and itching for a smoke when we pulled into a truck stop in a one-road Nebraska town called Hendrickson or some shit."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Uncanny, where the author gets the click.