The Weight of Everything
Moe here.
Stories in Fetish tagged matter-of-fact, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 13 to 21 minutes. Writers to know: Lodge of Winter, Frost Rhythm and The Fern Porch. Readers usually start with “The Weight of Everything” and “Latex and Low Tide”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Moe here.
The griddle at The Locker never really cools down in November, it just gets less use.
The thing you have to understand about me is that I plan things.
My name is Pat, I'm 33, and at 2:13 AM on a Thursday I was crouched under my desk in my garage tracing a Cat6 cable that had stopped…
I'm Amy, sixty-two years old, and I've been an electrician for thirty-eight years.
Lloyd Peck was fifty-two years old and he had never served on a jury in his life.
My name is Roberto.
I turned thirty-three on a Tuesday, and I spent the afternoon of my birthday lost in Leipzig on purpose.
I got to the house at nine on a Tuesday, and the driveway was already half full of trucks.
I had been in Victorville about three hours when my phone buzzed in my motel room.
Kimmy was forty-two years old and she had spent most of those years talking to machines.
I'm Agatha, I'm fifty-five, and I've been playing guitar longer than most of the bartenders in this town have been alive.
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 didn't sleep well Friday night, and I'll tell you why.
"You brought massage oil on a ferry?"
The rain had followed Hugh Oakley the whole way up the mountain road.
Aiden drags the hose across the bay floor one more time, boots squeaking on the wet polished concrete.
Dalton Reyes was thirty-two years old, and he had moved into the Cedar Court garden apartments for one reason, and the reason was petty.
The tent did almost nothing against the afternoon heat, and by two o'clock I could feel the sun coming straight through the canvas and…
My name is Dave Acosta, I'm sixty-two years old, and I was standing at the ballroom exit watching my cousin's wedding die a slow…