After the Marathon
"You snore a little."
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Anal stories. Anal stories, from quick reads to long series. Reads run 13 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: Indigo Spiral, Topaz Type and West Sketch. Readers usually start with “Drum Room Touch” and “Calibration”. Ranked by how many readers finish them. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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61 62 One Night to Finally Ask
I turned sixty-two on a Tuesday, and I spent it at The Sump with Cade Griffin, same as I'd spent most of my good nights for the last…
63 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…
64 Heat Exchanges
The night I turned thirty and Anders stayed twenty-nine, Anders hung a string of bulbs along the fire escape rail and told me the ritual…
65 Walls Between Us
The bookshelf broke on a Tuesday, which felt about right for my life that month.
66 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.
67 Ride or Die
The alarm went off at 4:15 and I lay there for a solid minute wondering whose idea my life was.
68 The Beekeeper's Anniversary
I've been the editor of the Pine Creek Courier for three years now, and I'm twenty-four years old, which means I've spent my whole adult…
69 Truck Stop Desire
Sixteen hours.
70 The Church Fair Confession
I want to tell you about the day I met Suzanne Dunn, because it started with a lemon bar.
71 The Magnetometer Lesson
I got to the shed at sunset, which sounds more romantic than it is.
72 Backyard Offer
Happy birthday to me?
73 Ash and Embers
The payphone in the corner of the taxidermy shop still worked.
74 New Campfire Skills
*I wanted to write something that was funny and hot, where the fish-out-of-water aspect made the tenderness hit harder.
75 Birthday Hostage
Birthdays stopped being fun for me somewhere around thirty-six.
76 Retirement Rails
I was ringing up a dozen nightcrawlers for a guy in an Alfred Earnhardt hat when the bell over the door went off and she walked in.
77 A New Chord
Sonny Clarkson spent most of his first week at Hartwell's Hardware learning where things lived.
78 Room Service Fantasy
I'm Mindy, I'm twenty-three, and I've been pulling espresso shots for a living since I got out of college.
79 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…
80 Reboot Required
I was elbow-deep in a hotel pan of julienned carrots when the swinging door bumped open and the noise of the line went thin, like somebody…