The First Blow
Okay, so here's how my Tuesday went.
Stories in First Time tagged stockings and lingerie, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 18 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Solstice Whisper, Midnight Gallery and Sparrow Tale. Readers usually start with “The First Blow” and “Thaw Point”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Okay, so here's how my Tuesday went.
You'd think a guy who does pretend for a living could handle a little cold.
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…
Roni was thirty-four years old and had been a flight attendant for nine years, and she could sleep in a middle seat in row 31 with a…
I drove up to the cottage on a Thursday in late April, and the first thing I saw was the lake, gray and flat as an ironing board.
You'd think a guy my age would have figured out by now that delivering groceries to strangers is basically paid loneliness.
The gig ran long.
I unlocked the break room door at eleven like always, and there was Drake, sitting on the worn couch with two coffees from the machine…
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.