Nicholas LaMendola

Nick LaMendola is a fiction writer and musician, and the creator of the podcast Written & Read By, featuring the narration of his short stories set to original music. His work has appeared in Mud Season Review.

Surface Tension

I started with the globe, then zoomed in. I narrowed my focus over one city, over one neighborhood, onto one block, onto one man. That was a long time ago.
I’ve watched him for decades now. I watched him start small, and rise into himself. Now that you’re here, we’ll watch him together. He’s finally started to come together. He’s finally started to come apart.