The Barn Reunion Game
I turned twenty-nine in March, which meant I was old enough to know better than to agree to fake-date someone I barely knew, and young…
Stories in Anal tagged food play, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 11 to 16 minutes. Writers to know: Indigo Spiral, Cypress Writer and Scarlet Verse. Readers usually start with “The Barn Reunion Game” and “Gear Shift”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
I turned twenty-nine in March, which meant I was old enough to know better than to agree to fake-date someone I barely knew, and young…
The show ended around nine, and by ten the fairground lot was nothing but empty sawhorses and a few stragglers towing their trailers home.
I met Noor at the train station at Fort Augustus on a Friday in April, which sounds fancier than it was.
The clock above the register said 2:04 when Nicky heard the engine coming up US-6, that ragged cough-and-sputter sound of a car that had…
Ten years ago I stood in a trailer at a course outside Scottsdale with Jayne, and we both blinked at each other like two people who had…
The haboob was supposed to come through around four.
I moved to Saltcliff in October, right after the last of the summer people cleared out.
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…
The Ponderosa Campground sat at the end of a gravel road that had been trying to shake my car apart for the last twenty minutes.
*This one's all about the playful energy of festivals and how a simple invitation can turn into something really hot between partners who…
I'd been working the rooftop shift at the Meridian for about a year by that summer, and I knew every corner of it.