Ramp Song
I woke up with a strange weight across my ribs and for a second I couldn't remember what year it was.
Coworkers mature stories
Stories in Mature tagged coworkers, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 24 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: The Scarlet Traveler, Route of Stone and Frost Phrase. Readers usually start with “Ramp Song” and “Backstroke at Midnight”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Coworkers mature stories, ranked by readers
01 02 Backstroke at Midnight
The greenhouse smelled like wet soil and orchids.
03 The Blue Hour Sessions
The job came in on a Tuesday, which I remember because Tuesdays are when I sit by the phone as a woman waiting on a jury verdict.
04 The Unhurried Harvest of Her Heart
Drew again.
05 The Icewater Dare
My name is Alanna Mathews, I'm forty-seven years old, and I've been a deckhand on the M.V.
06 Last Call Confessions
The Crimson Oak sits in the lobby of the Wexford Hotel, which is one of those old hotels that costs too much and smells like money trying…
07 The Premium on Irma
The Tap and Rail closed at midnight on Fridays and Charlie let me sit while he counted the drawer.
08 The Layover Lesson
*This one came from a canceled flight and a bottle of good Syrah at a gate.
09 The Roast of the Century
Peg was fifty-two years old and she had been roasting coffee for the better part of twenty years, so she found it ridiculous, standing in…
10 The Last Haul
Sienna called me at seven in the morning, after we'd both been up all night on a shift.
11 The Professor's Late-Night
I have been running events at Oakton College for seven years, and in that time I have learned one rule about visiting scholars.
12 The Spite Spread
The parking lot at Willow Creek Farmers Market was already half full by seven in the morning, and I was already sweating through my blouse…
13 The Con That Backfired
I took the Snowpine job because I was tired of being the good guy.
14 The Driver's Test
The dispatch note said pickup at four, which meant by any sane math I should have been loaded and rolling by five.
15 The Mail Room After Dark
My name is Trixie Decker, I'm forty-seven years old, and I've been running the basement mail room of the Fairmont Building for fifteen…