Ballast and Bread
Gail had been in Caherdaniel for fourteen months by then, and most of that time she had spent telling herself that starting over at…
Stories in First Time tagged a couple who have been dating a while, not married, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 19 to 25 minutes. Writers to know: Dusk Story, The Gold Type and Hour of Flint. Readers usually start with “Ballast and Bread” and “The Thirty-Ninth”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Gail had been in Caherdaniel for fourteen months by then, and most of that time she had spent telling herself that starting over at…
The office at Bell's Automotive smelled like coffee and brake dust, which is not a combination I'd recommend to anybody.
So there I was, standing on the landing stage at Pier Head at seven o'clock on a Thursday evening, holding a bottle of wine my sister…
I want to tell you about the night everything changed for me, and I'm sixty-two years old, so you know right away this isn't some college…
Dean here.
The dinner had been a disaster, if you can call two people not talking a disaster.
You'd think a guy who does pretend for a living could handle a little cold.
Fran Smyth was twenty-three years old, and she had learned something about herself that fall: you can walk into your own apartment with a…
Sally had been working up to it all weekend.