Peony Season
I have been a court docket clerk in Třešť for thirty-eight years, and if you had told me at twenty-five that I would spend four decades…
Best Raw and blunt Stories of 2026
The most-read raw and blunt stories right now, in a short top ten and then picks by how you want to read. Raw and blunt stories, from quick reads to long series. Most raw and blunt stories here sit in anal and fetish. Reads run 14 to 23 minutes. Writers to know: Vermilion Works, The Clover Voyage and Garnet Sonnet. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The top raw and blunt stories
01 02 Taste of the Bitter Herb
"You want me to hold your life in my hands?"
03 Boots and a Tent
The ferry left Dover at five in the morning, and I was on the deck for it because I figured if I was going to have a nervous breakdown…
04 The Corkscrew Bid
Every wedding I've ever been to, I end up feeling like the furniture.
05 Heat Rising on Novak Street
We got married a year ago, when I was twenty-three and Lori was twenty-four, and then we spent almost the whole first year of it living in…
06 What I Kept Hidden
My name is Leanne, I'm thirty-four years old, and I own the only auction house in Fort Baines.
07 The Barge Photographs
Hospital waiting rooms are a strange kind of place when you think about them.
08 Calibration
I came to Zánka for a vinegar tasting, which is not the sort of sentence I ever expected to say out loud.
09 Bow Saw Matinee
The rain had been coming down for two days straight and the gravel behind the bar had turned into this gray soup that pooled around the…
10 Watching Tiff
Tiff asked me to house-sit again, and of course I said yes again.
Longer raw and blunt reads
The Diving Bell's Echo
I woke at four without the alarm, which was a small mercy because the alarm on a Saturday was the sound of my own regret.
Cork and Crepeline
The potluck had been going for about two hours when Callie hit her stride.
The Last Choir Practice
I joined the choir six months ago.
The Listing Party
Ian did most of his thinking while he chopped things, which was one reason he liked being a caterer.
Grounded in Memphis
Trinity Emerson was twenty-three years old and sitting in the crew lounge in Memphis watching her ex-husband's wedding photos scroll…