The Corkscrew Bid
Every wedding I've ever been to, I end up feeling like the furniture.
Raw and blunt first time stories
Stories in First Time tagged raw and blunt, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 18 to 23 minutes. Writers to know: North Craft, Linen Quota and Solstice Compass. Readers usually start with “The Corkscrew Bid” and “What I Kept Hidden”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Raw and blunt first time stories, ranked by readers
01 02 What I Kept Hidden
My name is Leanne, I'm thirty-four years old, and I own the only auction house in Fort Baines.
03 The Last Choir Practice
I joined the choir six months ago.
04 When the Truth Slips Out
Some nights the dispatch desk felt less like a job and more like a chair I rented from the university.
05 The Last Juror
The elevator on the fifth floor had been broken since Tuesday, which meant everybody else took the stairs, which meant I got to be the…
06 The Wrong Fitting
Liza arrived at the motel with her jaw already tight, which was mostly Chrissie's doing.
07 The Sticky End of Whipped Cream
I was sorting parcel labels at the distribution center on a Tuesday when Katya dropped the whole thing on me like a sack of wet newspapers.
08 The Rules List
I made the list on a Thursday night, sitting on my couch in my underwear eating cold pad thai out of the box, because that's just the kind…
09 Arctic Book Club
The book club was supposed to start at seven.
10 Public Fantasy Gone Wrong
Sally had been working up to it all weekend.
11 Bridge Job
Logan Forrest had been a veterinarian for film sets for eleven years, and in all that time he had never once wandered into Newman's Pawn &…
12 Pit Lane First
The gig ran long.
13 Rest Stop Rules
*This one's about what happens when two people who know every inch of each other decide to act like strangers.
14 Sound Check
*Thanks for reading.