River Song, Late Takes
The barge sat low in the water at the mooring outside Villeneuve-sur-Seine, and Marshall Sanford stood on the plank ramp with a clipboard…
Dry and wry interracial love stories
Stories in Interracial Love tagged dry and wry, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 17 to 25 minutes. Writers to know: Garnet Switch, The Raven Station and Linen Season. Readers usually start with “River Song, Late Takes” and “The Blueprint”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Dry and wry interracial love stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Blueprint
Helen Marchetti met DeShawn Cole in the fall of her twenty-sixth year, in a second-year grad studio that smelled like spray adhesive and…
03 The Bride's Escape
I woke up on my twenty-ninth birthday to a text from my ex-wife that said only "happy bday, hope you're well."
04 The Last Reservation
Cyndi Farrell, a white woman of thirty-six, professionally annoyed, pushed through the door of Sergio's at 7:04 on a Friday night in late…
05 The Conference Room Fiasco
Natalie Schaeffer came through the hotel doors at a half run, dragging a green duffel bag that kept snagging on the revolving door.
06 The Call Sheet
I woke up on the leather couch in the living room of the location house with a quilt tucked under my chin and no memory of how I got there.
07 The Grappler's Reach
I am thirty-four years old and I sell houses for a living, and right now I am sitting in my Corolla in a strip mall parking lot, sweating…
08 Straw Bale Springs
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…
09 Bare Canvas, Broken Rodeo
*This one started with the idea of obligation turning into something unspoken.
10 The Attic at the Gilded Pear
I got to the Gilded Pear Inn on a Thursday evening in October, fifteen minutes early, which for me counts as heroic effort.
11 The Potluck Dare
Al had been widowed for six years, and for most of those six years he had spent Wednesday nights alone in front of the television, eating…
12 Greaser and the Blueprint
I had a plan on Saturday.