What I Kept Hidden
My name is Leanne, I'm thirty-four years old, and I own the only auction house in Fort Baines.
Neighbors first time stories
Stories in First Time tagged neighbors, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 20 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Solstice Compass, Linen Quota and Sparrow Tale. Readers usually start with “What I Kept Hidden” and “The Tent Game”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Neighbors first time stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Tent Game
I'm Liv Hall, fifty-two years old, and I want it stated up front that I did not plan any of this.
03 What the Walls Hold
The evenings were the worst part of it, and I want to be plain about that from the start, because people assume retirement is all golf and…
04 Forty and First
The sheet smells like her soap.
05 First Frost
The drive up took six hours and I did most of it with the radio off, which should tell you something about the state I was in.
06 Ashes and Birdcages
Teresa had owned the birdcage for six years and could not remember, most days, how she had come to own it in the first place.
07 Sound Check
*Thanks for reading.
08 The Last Bedroom
The last bus out of Waskom left at 6:40, and I know this now with the kind of precision you only get from watching it happen.