The Last Shift at the Glasshouse
The snow starts around four in the afternoon.
Stories in Group Sex tagged funny and chatty, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 18 to 22 minutes. Writers to know: Storm Notebook, Fern Sketch and Storm Story. Readers usually start with “The Last Shift at the Glasshouse” and “The Conference Aftermath”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The snow starts around four in the afternoon.
Paul had been coming to the regional insurance conference in Columbus for eleven years, and he could honestly say it never got more…
I was thirty-five years old and had just wasted two hours of my life listening to a man describe his mother's hip surgery in detail, and…
I quit my job on a Tuesday and the plan was to have one last party in the storage unit that Friday.
I'm Maya, thirty-one, and I've spent most of my adult life being the kind of person who plans things.
I was fifty-two years old and I was packing boxes full of glass eyes on a Saturday afternoon.
The invitation said seven o'clock, and I got there at 7:12 because I drove past the house twice.
I'm forty-two years old, divorced two years now, and I drive a box truck for a medical supply company, which means most of my nights look…
I got to the Burrows & Son roastery at nine in the morning, three hours before the memorial was set to start, because flowers take time…
The moving truck sat dead in the gravel lot, hood up, when we pulled in.
*This one came from a mood, not a plan, something about the quiet after a loud party and what four consenting adults might do with the…
My bus died somewhere in the middle of nowhere, Argentina, and I mean the actual middle.
The gate agent said the word "cancelled" like she was reading a grocery list, and then fourteen hundred of us were set loose into the…
Let me tell you how I ended up locked in a model home with three other adults and no coffee refills, because it makes more sense if you…
Natasha was twenty-six and still not used to the quiet out here.
The rigging took me two weeks and it was perfect.