Jon Courtenay Grimwood

What Is 'Last Drink Bird Head'?
That’s the catalyst editors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer provided to over 80 writers in creating this unique anthology. The result? Last Drink Bird Head is a blues musician, a performance artist, a type of alcohol, a town in Texas, and even a song sung by girl scouts in Antarctica...

One take/no edit Flash Fiction for charity at its finest (with a launch party for the anthology in San Jose!) You can discover more here. My own opening paragraphs are posted below:

'I walk into the cellar bar below the Marina Hotel on the day the Russian President falls down fifteen stone steps and breaks his neck. That’s the story to which the police are sticking and who am I to doubt them?

Anyway, it’s a wet Wednesday night, with the streets still damp from that afternoon’s monsoon and my jacket glued to my back like a half-shed skin, and there she is, sitting on a stool by the counter drinking.

She was there and I was in the door and the music was playing and my head didn’t have enough space for punctuation, because it gets like that sometimes. Actually, it gets like that a lot these days, ever since I walked away from my past in the last few seconds before it decided to walk away from…'