The first AQ/CMP Hitotoki event, Hitoban, held last Tuesday, January 29th was a wonderful success. The Pink Cow graciously filled our gullets with some of the best Mexican style eats any of us had ever had in Tokyo. The Hitotoki readings were short, punchy, engaging and, sometimes, like in the case of Momus', a little bit scary. But scary with a wink and a twinkle.

You can catch all the excitement on Flickr! Because, yes ... your eyes, however tired they may be, aren't playing tricks on you. For the first time in history, we helped put on a literary event that was photographed and documented. Finally living proof that all our talk about readings and launch parties aren't fantastical aftershocks of too much LSD.

Thanks especially to the readers: Jean Snow, Shinjo-san, David Cady, Aneta, Guttersnipe Das, Ashley Rawlings, Momus, Sugawara-san and last, sometimes forgotten but certainly not least, Uleshka. And of course to HIllel for gracing us with a spontaneous reading from one of his short stories. All in all, a lot of fun and you can count on us trying to duplicate that same fleeting, impossible feeling you get when you find true love in a literary event a few months down the line.