Last Call on Lot 7
Dottie punched in at the gate at ten minutes to nine and the guard booth smelled like old coffee, the same as every other night shift she…
Stories in Interracial Love tagged a couple who have been dating a while, not married, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 16 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: Linen Season, Cinder Syntax and Outline of Echo. Readers usually start with “Last Call on Lot 7” and “Kept Key”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Dottie punched in at the gate at ten minutes to nine and the guard booth smelled like old coffee, the same as every other night shift she…
Lyssa had the needle halfway through the last petal of a rose when her phone buzzed on the tray beside her.
Natalie Schaeffer came through the hotel doors at a half run, dragging a green duffel bag that kept snagging on the revolving door.
Joanie Koch was thirty-six years old, and she could count her impulsive decisions on one hand with fingers left over.
The announcement came over the speakers in that flat voice they use for bad news, the one that sounds almost apologetic about it.
I wake up slow, the way you only do when you slept really well, and for a second I don't know where I am.
Sierra watched the scrub roll past the window and thought about turning twenty-nine in three weeks.
Helene, a Black farmer's daughter from Georgia who now ran her own few acres up the valley, parked her truck behind The Hive at seven on a…
Laura had never stolen anything in her life, unless you counted the keys currently burning a hole in her jacket pocket.
I'd been up since six that morning messing with the cover art, so by the time I parked my Corolla outside The Beehive I'd already had two…
Thomas walked into The Backstop at 8:40 on a Friday night, and I knew because I felt it before I saw it.
Karen, twenty-eight, white, aquarist.
I set my camera bag down by the café counter at The Prow and did the thing I always did first, which was find Kat on the wall.
I watched Andre laugh at something the waitress said and I tried to remember the last time that laugh had actually done anything to me.
I had a plan on Saturday.