Empty Resort Games
The off-season at the Sea Crest Resort is a strange kind of quiet.
Stories in Exhibitionist & Voyeur tagged feet, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 14 to 21 minutes. Writers to know: Notebook of Silver, The Iron Horizon and Vermilion Engine. Readers usually start with “Empty Resort Games” and “The Tide Table Test”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The off-season at the Sea Crest Resort is a strange kind of quiet.
Thelma had been compiling tide tables at the coastal post office for six years, thirty-two years old and unmarried and mostly content, and…
Thirty-four years, folks.
The siren went off a little after six on a Tuesday evening, and it was the kind of sound that made your teeth hurt before your brain…
The shoot wrapped at seven, and by eight the stage was mine, or at least it felt like mine, one big empty room dressed as a 1970s wine bar…
I'm fifty-two years old.
The lock on our bathroom door had been broken for three years, and I had meant to fix it for approximately two years and eleven months of…
Doug came through the door of the apartment at nine at night, stomping snow off his boots in the little foyer by the radiator, and the…
The Saltwake Hotel sat at the end of the boardwalk like an old dog nobody had the heart to put down, three stories of faded teal siding…