Boots on the Wrong Feet
I'm forty-three years old, I teach sports medicine at a university, and I have published two papers on injury prevention, so you would…
Stories in Letters & Transcripts tagged oil and massage, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 11 to 15 minutes. Writers to know: Pilot of Plum, Slate Fiction and Flint Logic. Readers usually start with “Boots on the Wrong Feet” and “Ink and Stone”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
I'm forty-three years old, I teach sports medicine at a university, and I have published two papers on injury prevention, so you would…
I almost died in March, which is how this whole thing started, and I need to explain it from the beginning because if you found this tin…
Dear Lamar, I am sixty-two years old and I am writing you a letter because if I had to say this out loud I would rather be swallowed by…
Okay, so here's how my Tuesday went.
I wrote the first letter at two in the morning in the ambulance bay, sitting on the bumper of Rig Two with the bay doors open because the…
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…
So there I was, thirty-four years old, standing in the loading line of the MV Tanner with a duffel bag full of tattoo equipment and…
I'm Piper Blackwood, twenty-eight, and I fix cars for a living.
Dear Carlton, You think I was impressed.
You know how it goes when the house gets quiet?
You have to understand, I don't get real mail.
My dad died owing money, and not the kind of money you can shrug at and move on from, either.