Moss Light Signals
The whole thing started over a hatpin holder, which is not a sentence I ever expected to say out loud, and yet here I am, thirty-four…
Stories in Letters & Transcripts tagged strangers, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 14 minutes. Writers to know: Ridge Notebook, Pilot of Plum and Flint Logic. Readers usually start with “Moss Light Signals” and “Barely Surface”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The whole thing started over a hatpin holder, which is not a sentence I ever expected to say out loud, and yet here I am, thirty-four…
Okay, so here's how I'm going to tell this, because telling it out loud in order makes my face hot and I have to work in twenty minutes.
Let me start by explaining the stall situation, because everything that came after it depends on the stall situation, and I refuse to let…
Dear Jameson, or maybe just Jameson since we skipped a few formalities last night, that's how I'm starting this, on a paper napkin from…
I'm Piper Blackwood, twenty-eight, and I fix cars for a living.
I was thirty-four that fall, on sabbatical from my software job, and I had planned exactly none of what happened.
I have been a wedding planner for nine years.
I turned twenty-eight in March, which is about the least interesting fact about me, but I mention it because my mother asked if I was…