The Server Error
I'm Willa.
Stories in Mature tagged feet, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 22 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: The Ginger Avenue, Drift Diary and Observer of Starling. Readers usually start with “The Server Error” and “The Curator's Choice”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
I'm Willa.
I turned fifty-two on a Thursday, and that Friday night my boyfriend of three years asked me to pretend we had never met.
*This one was written in the quiet hour after midnight, thinking about how gentleness is not the opposite of heat.
I turned forty-six on a Sunday, and I mention this only because it frames everything that came after.
I was twenty-three that fall and I'd been working at the coffee roastery in Ford's Crossing for almost two years, which in a town that…
Hilary heard the press before she saw it, the way she always did, the big Heidelberg humming through the floor of the press room like a…
*This one came from a canceled flight and a bottle of good Syrah at a gate.
I turned 28 on a Monday, and I spent most of that morning telling teenagers where to put their feet.
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…
The hallways are quiet at seven.