The Platen Knob Proposition
Subject: so about last night Chris, Okay so I'm writing this at my kitchen table with coffee I have already reheated twice, and I am going…
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Stories in Letters & Transcripts tagged funny and chatty, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 14 minutes. Writers to know: Marigold Hearth, Quarry of Copper and The Delta Studio. Readers usually start with “The Platen Knob Proposition” and “Flame Shift”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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01 02 Flame Shift
Okay, so here's how my Tuesday went.
03 Oil Change Confessions
I'm twenty-three, and up until last Tuesday I would have told you I was a reasonably stable adult with a job, a cat, and a functioning…
04 A Razor's Edge
I found the peletine at the bottom of the second storage container, under a folded spinnaker that smelled like the inside of somebody's…
05 The Copy Room Confession
Subject: You are not going to believe this.
06 The Wrong Stall
Let me start by explaining the stall situation, because everything that came after it depends on the stall situation, and I refuse to let…
07 the ribbon king's last secret
Let me start by saying I'm twenty-eight years old and I have never lost a pie competition on purpose, which will matter later.
08 The Adjuster's Offer
Monday morning I did a thing I'm not proud of, or maybe I am, I still haven't decided, which was I sat down after my eight a.m.
09 One Last Set
You know how it goes when the house gets quiet?
10 The Morning After the Drywall
I woke up at 6:04 in a trailer that smelled like joint compound and coffee that had already been made and drunk.
11 The Lucky Number Bid
Dear Nella, Okay so you know how Caleb and I have been in that rut lately, the one where our biggest argument is whose turn it is to…
12 Backup Girl Sleepover Deal
So the whole thing started because of a guy named Trevor who took me to a pizza place and then spent forty minutes talking about his…
13 Fitting Room Letters
My sister Irina got engaged last spring and for reasons I still don't fully understand, she put me, her thirty-four-year-old brother…
14 The Market Challenge
My name is Kathleen, I am fifty-two years old, and I want to tell you about the stupidest experiment I ever agreed to with a man I wasn't…
15 Cascade of Emails
My name is Noelle Petersen and I'm forty-four years old, which matters later, so hold that thought.
16 The Wall Thrummed
I want to start this by saying I didn't want to go to that conference.
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