The Sour Hour
I turned sixty-two last March and I celebrated it the way I have celebrated most things lately, that is to say I did not celebrate it.
Stories in Mature tagged friend of a friend, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 22 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Vermilion Fiction, Shadow Story and Garnet Bridge. Readers usually start with “The Sour Hour” and “Code Red”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
I turned sixty-two last March and I celebrated it the way I have celebrated most things lately, that is to say I did not celebrate it.
It was two in the morning and I was thirty-eight hundred lines into Rudy's garbage code.
I'd been smiling for nine hours straight and my face felt like it was gonna crack.
I've been carrying mail in Wexley for nine years now.
Ten years.
My name is Lindsay Hill, I'm 38 years old, and for the last four years I've made my living talking dirty to strangers.
I didn't join Cal at the depot because I was lonely.
The pool closed at six, same as it had all summer.