The Stranger in My Kitchen
Okay so let me set the scene for you.
Stories in Letters & Transcripts tagged food play, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 11 to 14 minutes. Writers to know: River Tale, Flint Logic and Echo Ink. Readers usually start with “The Stranger in My Kitchen” and “The Decoy Date Letters”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Okay so let me set the scene for you.
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I found the first note on a Tuesday, twelve days before wrap, tucked into the inside pocket of a navy blazer I was letting out for the…
I was thirty-four that fall, on sabbatical from my software job, and I had planned exactly none of what happened.
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*This one came from the quiet moments between closing and opening, when the store hums and nobody talks.
The meeting ran long.
My name is Mack Cosgrove, I'm forty-five, and I run the golf side of Dorothy Finch's cider mill here in Pembrokeshire.