Stocking Night
The shop smells like old paper and dust.
Stories in Fetish tagged old classmates now adults, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: Jade Canvas, Narrative of Coral and Summit Compass. Readers usually start with “Stocking Night” and “Maple Syrup and Misunderstandings”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The shop smells like old paper and dust.
My name is Mack, I am sixty-two years old, and I have never once backed down from a contest in my whole life.
Five in the morning and the farmers market was already packed.
The merger party was killing me.
I'm twenty-eight years old and I've been waiting tables at the Copper Kettle for four years.
Claire had been a flight attendant for twenty-two years, and in all that time she had never once gotten on the wrong shuttle, until the…
My dry spell had a birthday coming up.
Joan was fifty-two years old, and six weeks ago she had thrown a coffee mug at a wall.