Phil Temples lives in Watertown, Massachusetts, and works as a computer systems administrator at a university. He’s had over a hundred short fiction stories published in print and online journals. His full-length murder-mystery novel, “The Winship Affair” is available from Blue Mustang Press, as well as a short story anthology, “Machine Feelings” from Big Table Publishing.

This ten word story was typed on an Olivetti-Underwood, Lettera 22, manual typewriter, made in Italy c. 1961.  Let’s call him Lorenzo.

Photo credit: Kae Sable