The Jam Vendor
Debra figured the market would be dead on a Thursday, so she left her van in the gravel lot behind the grange hall and gave herself twenty…
Oil and massage nonhuman stories
Stories in NonHuman tagged oil and massage, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 18 to 23 minutes. Writers to know: The Rose Phrase, Signal of Velvet and Twilight Epilogue. Readers usually start with “The Jam Vendor” and “The Key to Room 12”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Oil and massage nonhuman stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Key to Room 12
The elevator in Shirley's building had a mirror in it, and I made the mistake of looking into it on the ride up.
03 Map of Unspoken Things
The county sent me out to the records office in March, right when the roads were still half mud and the furnace in the old building was…
04 Chime and Claim
Erika had a rule about herself, and the rule was this: she was never surprised.
05 The Garlic Knot
My name is Wendell Cameron, I'm twenty-eight years old, and until last Sunday I thought the strangest thing in my life was the smell of…
06 She Was Never Human
The skiff bumped against the dock and I grabbed the piling before I went in the water, which would have been a fine way to end fifty-four…
07 The Vet and the Alien
Tabby cleaned her house on a Tuesday in late May, which was something she had not done for a date in three years, and she was honest…
08 Jaw Trap
Angelica was 44 years old and had been a dentist for twenty years, which meant she knew the weight of every box in her office by feel.
09 The Estimator's Visit
The agency had said seven o'clock.
10 Foxfire Waltz
Vickie Richardson was forty-one years old and driving a mail truck up a gravel road in the Cascade foothills, and she thought, not for the…
11 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.