Finally Unpacking
Penelope stood in the middle of her new apartment and laughed at herself.
Stories in Interracial Love tagged tender and slow, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 19 to 21 minutes. Writers to know: Sparrow Tale, Laurel Register and Outline of Echo. Readers usually start with “Finally Unpacking” and “Kayak and the Caterer”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Penelope stood in the middle of her new apartment and laughed at herself.
The warehouse smelled like old velvet and salt, which is what happens when a band stores forty years of stage costumes a hundred yards…
Joanie Koch was thirty-six years old, and she could count her impulsive decisions on one hand with fingers left over.
The divorce papers came back in March, stamped and final, and I did what I always did.
The tray comes at me fast and I do the sideways shuffle I've been doing for twenty years.
I bought the Snowbird Inn at thirty-eight, a year before my divorce finished eating itself, and I have been apologizing to it ever since.
Elisabeth found the sandwich at the bottom of the lunch pail, still wrapped in foil, still cold.
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.