Scanner's Hour
The scanner died at nine in the evening, and to be honest, I actually laughed when it did.
Stories in Anal tagged longtime friends, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 13 to 19 minutes. Writers to know: Indigo Spiral, Shadow Writer and Ruby Folio. Readers usually start with “Scanner's Hour” and “The Cable Car Stop”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The scanner died at nine in the evening, and to be honest, I actually laughed when it did.
The cable car jerked to a stop so hard I bit my tongue.
The equinox crowd showed up at the mine shaft around four in the afternoon, the same as they did every March and September, and I was…
The truffle bazaar smells like dirt and machine oil this early.
I paid the rental car guy through the app and sat in the driveway for a minute before I got out.
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Lindy showed up at the fairgrounds at ten in the morning, still in her patrol jacket even though she was off duty.
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…