The Quiet End
Three days on the road and I had her mouth on my mind the whole way, which is a dangerous thing when you're running a forty-foot trailer…
Matter-of-fact mature stories
Stories in Mature tagged matter-of-fact, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 23 to 25 minutes. Writers to know: Route of Stone, Whisper of Shadow and The Breeze Draft. Readers usually start with “The Quiet End” and “The Blue Hour Sessions”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Matter-of-fact mature stories, ranked by readers
01 02 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.
03 The Owner's Proposition
I am sitting in the back office of The Golden Note at eleven forty on a Wednesday night, and the man across the desk from me is looking at…
04 The Last Kiln
The kiln had been cooling since the power died at sunset; I checked the pyrometer and it read one thousand two hundred and forty degrees…
05 Swinging at the Record Store
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…
06 The Rehearsal Dinner
The dress was too tight.
07 The Last Haul
Sienna called me at seven in the morning, after we'd both been up all night on a shift.
08 The Wager at Dunemouth
The tourists left Dunemouth in the middle of October, and by the first week of November the town had gone quiet in a way that took some…
09 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…