Sunday: The default answer is sushi.

I chose the timing correctly to be there when they started filling the belt for the dinner rush.

TldrL:

• Title:  The Music of Erich Zann
• Date:  1921
• Summary:  Erich Zann is mute, and plays violin at night.  When the narrator goes up to visit him, Zann starts to write down his story, but has to get up suddenly to go play violin at his window, because it actually opens up to a generic empty void of space.  Zann dies doing this, and although the narrator was waiting while Zann was writing, he doesn't read any of the pages during that time.  Which is convenient for the "gust of wind" that sucks them all out into the void.  The narrator runs away, and "can never find that street" again, as you do.
• Real Villain:  Music.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  Yes.  Close enough.
• Rating:  5/10.
• Read it:  Here.

Sushisushisushisushisushisushi.

• Pokemon.
• Mario Pikachu.
• Guinea Pig Ash.
• Not Pokemon.
• Extreme poverty.
• This just looks cool.
• Box cats.
• Flying.