MacQueen’s Quinterly: Fiction: Guy Biederman: The Shortest Distance Between Two Points

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Issue 33:	August 2026
Microfiction:	55 words

By Guy Biederman

The Shortest Distance Between Two Points

I press Rewind on Memory’s Remote and we’re yesterday-last-year-four-decades ago. Pause. We’ve fallen asleep on the Munich train to Salzburg, waking near Czechoslovakia, Octoberfest Steins clanking in my backpack, love sparking in the gap between your down parka arm and my corduroy sleeve, train wheels clicking down the tracks.

Bio: Guy Biederman

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