The Second Bakery Attack/On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning

By Haruki Murakami

Read it here: http://web.mit.edu/norvin/www/somethingelse/murakami.html An amusing one about a man and wife getting hella hungry, and so he tells her a story of his first bakery attack. We get to read the story of his 2nd bakery attack, which is the funny bit, since they couldn't find a bakery, but it still fixing the problem. Weird, short story.  

Read it here: http://msittig.freeshell.org/docs/Murakami_100Percent_Perfect_Girl.html Short read about a guy thinking of a story to come up with to break the ice with a girl he sees walking in the opposite direction of him. Murakami has fleshed out this love story just missed out idea, plenty. It's still well written, though.