Give me one moment in time

There's nothing I like more than being distracted by a beautiful website, especially one based on user submissions. I thought I had found social-network-enabled sites for all my major passions with Last.FM, Forkd, Goodreads and Flickr - however Hitotoki taps into another love of mine, the short story.

Hitotoki means a single point in time. And that is just what the site features, short stories marking a specific time, place and experience in a city. It features London, Paris, New York, Toyko, Shanghai and Washington DC. Some of the stories are sad, some silly, some little more than an observation. But each one is lovely in its own way. The latest London story is about a guerilla gig on a grey afternoon and I find the tale of that first job interview particularly evocative.