Frozen Rails and Warm Coffee
The crossing signal had been stuck on red for forty minutes and counting.
Warm and nostalgic anal stories
Stories in Anal tagged warm and nostalgic, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: Mist Pulse, Scarlet Verse and Ember Prism. Readers usually start with “Frozen Rails and Warm Coffee” and “The Oil Press Proposal”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Warm and nostalgic anal stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Oil Press Proposal
The absurd part wasn't that I was trapped overnight in a disused oil palm press at the edge of Kanas Lake.
03 His Gentle Guidance After Hours
Nik texted me at six to say he was locking up soon, and I typed back one line: stay late, food's coming.
04 Road Trip Blues
The piano slid again when I hit the brakes, and this time it hit the wheel well hard enough that the whole van rocked.
05 The Chef's Last Service
Dawson Burrows has been a chef for seven years, and tonight he plates the last dish he will ever send out of this kitchen.
06 Equinox Morning
Ben woke up with a crick in his neck and a stone floor printing its pattern into his hip.
07 Slide Lesson
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.
08 The Church Fair Confession
I want to tell you about the day I met Suzanne Dunn, because it started with a lemon bar.
09 Fumbling Through the Years
Austin Torres was twenty-three years old, and he had been standing by the keg for about forty minutes, which he figured was long enough to…
10 The Heron and the Lighthouse
The trip started out as a simple getaway.
11 A week of surrender
I sat at the bar of the Driftwood Lounge on a Tuesday night, scrolling through another dating app message that went nowhere.
12 Hymnal Surrender
Jenna Gardner was thirty-four years old and she had been singing alto in the choir at St.
13 The Grain Elevator Lover
My divorce went through in March, two years ago now.