The B-Sides

B-side

Wren Sandoval knows everything.

Track numbers. Mixing notes. The year the label changed hands. Which forgotten b-side is secretly the best thing LYRA ever recorded, and exactly why the new album isn't. Ask her anything—everyone in the big corner booth does, every night, all summer, and she has an answer for all of it.

Nobody has ever asked her what she likes. They ask her what it means.

Toby Lund barbacks at the Rusty Anchor and says about forty words a night. He knows how everyone at that booth takes their drink. He tops up her water mid-sentence, lifts her bag off the wet floor, and has never once interrupted her.

On Tuesday, at close, wiping down a table he doesn't look up from, he asks her something else.

B-side is a free short story in three parts. One bar, one booth, one summer, and the very small distance between being useful to people and being wanted by them.

Chapter One — Here
Chapter Two — Coming Wednesday 26 August
Chapter Three — Coming Wednesday 2 September