Heat Rising on Novak Street
We got married a year ago, when I was twenty-three and Lori was twenty-four, and then we spent almost the whole first year of it living in…
Stories in Exhibitionist & Voyeur tagged raw and blunt, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 15 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: The Iron Horizon, Dawn Harbor and Notebook of Silver. Readers usually start with “Heat Rising on Novak Street” and “Watching Tiff”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
We got married a year ago, when I was twenty-three and Lori was twenty-four, and then we spent almost the whole first year of it living in…
Tiff asked me to house-sit again, and of course I said yes again.
The rain came down like the sky had been saving up for it all summer, and honestly, we deserved it.
The night I got locked out of my building was the second Tuesday of October, which mattered because Pelican Shores basically shuts down…
I unlock the conservation lab at 10:47 PM.
You ever walk into a big empty building and think, huh, this place is a stage?
I was twenty-three years old, I owned my own shop, and I was standing alone at a car show looking at a Camaro I had zero intention of…
Tania Howell was thirty-four years old and she had been sitting in the Wagga Wagga airport lounge for four hours, and in that time she had…
Deidre Freeman had been divorced for eleven months.
I woke up in a bed that was not mine, under a sloped ceiling, with morning light coming through an arched window as large as a garage door.