Shelter from the Rain
The car died on the coast road at half past ten.
Stories in Crossdressing tagged stockings and lingerie, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 13 to 19 minutes. Writers to know: The Ochre Novel, Sage Word and Pulse of Copper. 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.
I took the tree lot job because my life had gotten so predictable I could schedule my boredom.
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…
The sedan had been rolling west on US-54 for about four hours when I decided the heat had cooked something loose in my brain.
The cannery at night is a big dead animal.
My ex-husband Edward used to say I planned things to death.
The fifties are a strange decade for a woman who has spent her whole career handling other people's underwear.
The tuk-tuk dropped me at the end of a gravel road and refused to go further, which I probably should have taken as a sign.
So here's how my Saturday went sideways, and honestly I'm still processing it a little.