The Lobster Pot
The suitcase comes around the carousel for the third time and I just stand there watching it.
Stories in Anal tagged chastity, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 14 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: The Blue Observer, The Ochre Transit and Iron Echo. Readers usually start with “The Lobster Pot” and “Equinox Morning”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The suitcase comes around the carousel for the third time and I just stand there watching it.
Ben woke up with a crick in his neck and a stone floor printing its pattern into his hip.
I want to start with the memo, because the memo is the whole reason for what happened on the nineteenth floor of Blaine & Rodgers on a…
Three months ago I was still living near the coast, teaching swim lessons at the Y in Cannon Beach, smelling like chlorine six days a week.
The cab dropped me on a block that smelled like sawdust and old money, and I stood on the sidewalk with my suitcase and looked up at the…
I checked my watch for the third time in an hour.
The listing said two o'clock, so I got there at ten to two, because I'm the kind of editor who shows up early to things and then sits in…
The Delta Room didn't look like much from the outside.