The Tide Table Test
Thelma had been compiling tide tables at the coastal post office for six years, thirty-two years old and unmarried and mostly content, and…
Dry and wry exhibitionist & voyeur stories
Stories in Exhibitionist & Voyeur tagged dry and wry, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 17 to 20 minutes. Writers to know: Notebook of Silver, The Midnight Quota and Laurel Story. Readers usually start with “The Tide Table Test” and “The Scale and the Bonfire”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Dry and wry exhibitionist & voyeur stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Scale and the Bonfire
Kelly Sander was forty-three years old, a veterinarian, and by nine that night she had already apologized to her GPS twice for calling it…
03 The Bottle and the Market
Isabelle Fulton had been a nurse for twenty-nine years, and she could count on one hand the number of times she had voluntarily gotten up…
04 The Theremin Show
Sheryl had learned to play the theremin the same year she learned to run a bingo hall, which was to say badly at first and then with a…
05 The Observation Deck
*This one's for anyone who's ever felt more alive under a curious gaze.
06 Watchman on the Green
*This one came from the idea of discovering desire in a place you never expected to feel it.
07 The Unguarded Canvas
Lucia had been dropping hints about the whole thing for a year, and Keith had missed every single one of them, which was honestly kind of…
08 Thorn and Oyster
The spine of that notebook went with a crack I felt in my wrist, a loud electric snap that rang off the teak ceiling of the old fish depot…
09 Second Service
My neck was the first thing to file a report.
10 Ladder Talk
It's for the dogs.
11 Chimney of Broken Keys
The last bus out of the city center on a Tuesday night in August is a special kind of torture, and I was on it, thirty-five years old and…
12 The Tab Dividers
I got to the potluck late, which was deliberate, because showing up on time to a thing in a long low room full of people I mostly knew…
13 Last Look
We'd been married seven years and I still couldn't read a map, which is how we ended up at the wrong trailhead for forty minutes while…
14 Seams of Desire
Reg Dyer showed up ten minutes early for his first fitting.
15 The Backline
I'm twenty-eight, my name is Inez, and I had exactly one job that night, which was holding Malik's spare water bottle near the stage so he…
16 The Reunion Visit
There's a joke in here somewhere, me standing in the same hallway where Hamish Wilton left me sitting on a cold stone bench twenty-one…
17 The Last Bus Home
I want to tell you about the night I got stuck at the Millbrook bus depot at half past midnight over a pack of glitter and some glue…
18 The Glass Staircase Tryst
I'm Nora, I'm thirty-four, which I consider old enough to know better, so let me tell you how a panel on metadata tagging nearly killed me.
19 Pit Light
Rae here.
20 Bitter View
The client call runs long because the client is an idiot.
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