The Wrong Pitch
I signed up for the retreat on a Tuesday night in March, half a bottle of wine in, and I remember thinking it would either fix my life or…
Dry and wry anal stories
Stories in Anal tagged dry and wry, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 17 minutes. Writers to know: Prelude of Flint, Ruby Folio and Cypress Writer. Readers usually start with “The Wrong Pitch” and “The Plum Wine Bet”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Dry and wry anal stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Plum Wine Bet
I moved to Alder Creek on a gray Tuesday in March, thirty-four years old, freshly divorced, and carrying everything I owned in the back of…
03 Spring Tension
I got to the Boronia Spring at four in the afternoon, which is the worst possible time to be anywhere in the Queensland outback.
04 Wall Songs
My office gave me a window, a plant that refuses to die, and a title with the word senior in it.
05 Curator's Thesis
I was fifty-one years old, standing at my kitchen sink in Portland on a rainy Thursday in November, rinsing dinner plates, when the words…
06 Off-Season Delivery
The breakup was six weeks old and I was still doing the math on it.
07 The Neighbor's Door
I was on my couch on a Tuesday night, staring at my phone like it owed me money, when somebody knocked on my door.
08 The Feed Room
I did not plan any of this.
09 She Rewrote My Scene
I'm Sylvie, short for Sylvester, thirty, a freelance film editor, three years out of my last real relationship, and I was eating cold pad…
10 The Operator's Directive
Tania Hale was twenty-two years old and six months into her first real job when the company sent her to Baku, and she still remembered the…