Oyster Days and Off-Season Ways
My mother's family came over from Jamaica in nineteen fifty-something, and I've told that story so many times I could do it in my sleep.
Stories in Interracial Love tagged rivals, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 17 to 23 minutes. Writers to know: Echo Transit, Thread of Tawny and Garnet Sonnet. Readers usually start with “Oyster Days and Off-Season Ways” and “The Last Reservation”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
My mother's family came over from Jamaica in nineteen fifty-something, and I've told that story so many times I could do it in my sleep.
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…
The whole mess started, like most of my problems, because Maddy wouldn't leave me alone.
Roberta Partridge had sold flowers on the same stretch of roadside for twenty years.
*I wanted to write a road-trip story that felt like two real people bumping against each other, not a fantasy of instant heat.
Rain came at us sideways, the way it does on Lake Geneva when the mountains decide they're bored.
The flight into Cleveland was twenty minutes late, which I should have known right there was the start of something, because my whole year…
The storm came in around six, and by seven the lights in the building were doing that thing lights do before they die, a flicker, a buzz…
The wrap was done by six, which meant the AD stopped yelling around six and the lighting crew started coiling cable like people who…
I got to the Gilded Pear Inn on a Thursday evening in October, fifteen minutes early, which for me counts as heroic effort.
I got to the aviation lab at 11:40 on a Tuesday night because that was the only slot the college had open, and I was already in a mood…