Belt and Organ
Nadine Conroy, forty-four years old, dentist, watched the departure board flip to CANCELED for the third time that day.
Stories in Fetish tagged coworkers, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 15 to 20 minutes. Writers to know: The Reed Tide, Ridge Lantern and Obsidian Verse. Readers usually start with “Belt and Organ” and “Cracked Ink and Hoar Frost”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Nadine Conroy, forty-four years old, dentist, watched the departure board flip to CANCELED for the third time that day.
Henrietta here, twenty-three, and I should say up front that this whole thing started because of a rock.
The parking lot had one truck left in it.
My name is Kerri Malone, I am sixty-two years old, and I have worked at the Brine Hollow pickle processing plant for thirty-six years.
I turned fifty-one on a Tuesday.
The email came on a Tuesday and it had the word "synergy" in the first sentence, which is never a good sign.
The drive took three hours and I spent most of it arguing with myself about whether I even deserved the night off.
The storm had been going since midnight, and by seven Carol Mendez was soaked just walking the last block.
I got to the Duncan estate a little after two on Friday, and the GPS had tried to kill me twice on the gravel road before I finally saw…
I stayed late on a Thursday, which I did more often than I admitted to anyone.
The board flipped to CANCELLED at 8:47 pm, and I stood there with my boarding pass still in my hand like an idiot, watching the word sit…
Brady Danner stood in the hallway of a walk-up on Smyth Avenue and stared at the label on the box like it might change if he blinked enough.