scabbard practice
The shop smells like leather and rosin, and I'm standing in the doorway holding a theremin case like an idiot.
Stories in Anal tagged uniforms, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 14 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: Ruby Folio, Scarlet Verse and Silver Syntax. Readers usually start with “scabbard practice” and “The Lesson Plan”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The shop smells like leather and rosin, and I'm standing in the doorway holding a theremin case like an idiot.
My name is Morgan Griffin, I'm twenty-four years old, and until last Tuesday I would have told you I was a pretty easygoing person.
The bookshelf broke on a Tuesday, which felt about right for my life that month.
I got to the Boronia Spring at four in the afternoon, which is the worst possible time to be anywhere in the Queensland outback.
The payphone in the corner of the taxidermy shop still worked.
*I wanted to write something that was funny and hot, where the fish-out-of-water aspect made the tenderness hit harder.
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