Shelter from the Rain
The car died on the coast road at half past ten.
Stories in Crossdressing tagged old classmates now adults, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 13 to 19 minutes. Writers to know: Lyric of Harbor, The Bay Prism and Lark Threshold. Readers usually start with “Shelter from the Rain” and “In the Chair After Hours”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The car died on the coast road at half past ten.
I sat on the edge of my own exam chair in Andre's oversized scrubs and tried to piece together how we had ended up here.
So here's how I usually tell this story when I've had a couple drinks and I trust the room, I don't do it often, but tonight I do.
Rob was twenty-four years old and three months into his new life on the island, which so far consisted of a rented room above the chowder…
I woke up before the sun did.
Connie Hastings turned 62 on a Tuesday, and nobody knew but her.
The piano almost didn't fit in the truck, and by the time I got the last strap cinched down in my church parking lot on Friday morning, I…
I was twenty-one the first time I took a skirt that wasn't mine.
The certified letter was the last stop of the day, and of course it was for the B&B, because the universe has a sense of humor and mine…
Dennis pulls into the gravel lot at six on a Thursday, feeling he is a man arriving at the wrong party.