Watching Tiff
Tiff asked me to house-sit again, and of course I said yes again.
Stories in Exhibitionist & Voyeur tagged longtime friends, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 17 to 20 minutes. Writers to know: The Dawn Myth, The Midnight Quota and The Autumn Epilogue. Readers usually start with “Watching Tiff” and “The Bottle and the Market”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Tiff asked me to house-sit again, and of course I said yes again.
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…
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…
The ferry from Helsinki to the lakeside town takes four hours, and I spend all of it staring at the water and thinking about nothing.
I'm forty-four years old and I still own a wooden spinning arrow from a drinking game.
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…
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…
Deidre Freeman had been divorced for eleven months.
You're staring.
I finished the bottle of wine on a Tuesday night in March, which is not an anniversary or anything, just a Tuesday, and I sat on my couch…