The Grinder's Witness
Sabine had been in Ahaura exactly two days, which was long enough to learn that her daughter's village had one bar and that the bar was…
Stories in Exhibitionist & Voyeur tagged breathless and eager, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 16 to 19 minutes. Writers to know: Brass Hearth, The Topaz Prologue and Vermilion Engine. Readers usually start with “The Grinder's Witness” and “The Fermentation Hut”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Sabine had been in Ahaura exactly two days, which was long enough to learn that her daughter's village had one bar and that the bar was…
The rain came down all at once, like somebody up there dumped a bucket, and I stomped across the yard to the little hut at the edge of the…
I was fifty-two miles from my old life, which is a long way to drive with a bruised heart and a cooler full of gas station lemonade, when…
I do the overnight deliveries at St.
I'm 53 years old and I know it, mostly.
*This one came from a long Sunday afternoon with nothing but dust motes in the light.
I was thirty-four years old and standing alone in my own lobby at eleven at night, and I want to tell you it felt like power, because it…
I got to the farm on a Tuesday in March, which I only remember because the colleague I was house-sitting for, Professor Kim Walsh…
Poppy is thirty tomorrow, and she knows this because Herman has already said "last year of your twenties" twice, and she's known him…
I got fired on a Friday afternoon, which is a terrible day to get fired because you have all weekend to sit with it.
Keiko Takahashi, twenty-eight years old and a pool attendant at the Swanton community aquatic center, had exactly one day off this week.
I'm Chester, 54 years old, and I've worked in a mailroom for 26 years.