The Lifeguard's Last Con
Jenny sat on the floor of her apartment, surrounded by boxes she had not finished packing.
Friend of a friend nonhuman stories
Stories in NonHuman tagged friend of a friend, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 19 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Signal of Velvet, The Honey Ghost and The Rose Phrase. Readers usually start with “The Lifeguard's Last Con” and “Thin Walls and Tea”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Friend of a friend nonhuman stories, ranked by readers
01 02 Thin Walls and Tea
The wall between Mollie's kitchen and Collette's kitchen was about as thick as a phone book, and on Tuesday nights it carried every word…
03 Rooftop Eaves
*This one started with the image of summer heat on a tar roof and the question of what would happen if you only had one night to explore…
04 After-Hours Anatomy
Russ Payne was twenty-four and mostly good at his job.
05 Spark and Scale
Farah sits at the corner table by the window of the lakefront bar and counts what she has left.
06 The HOA Secret
People in this neighborhood think something is wrong with me.
07 The Saffron Taste
Sweat was running into my eyes again, so I wiped my forehead with the back of my wrist and went back to checking the risers.
08 The Last Dare The Long Way
Louise Beck was forty-four years old and three hours into celebrating the end of her marriage when Timothy Hale leaned across the rooftop…