A Second Chance at Us
Kali was chopping onions when the doorbell rang, which meant the doorbell rang at the exact moment she had onion juice on her fingers and…
Tender and slow nonhuman stories
Stories in NonHuman tagged tender and slow, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 19 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: The Harbor Table, The Honey Ghost and Harbor Prologue. Readers usually start with “A Second Chance at Us” and “Map of Unspoken Things”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Tender and slow nonhuman stories, ranked by readers
01 02 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…
03 Blueprints and Moonlight
Sammi Winston was thirty-three years old and had planned forty-one weddings, and she would tell anyone who stood still long enough that…
04 Boo the Monster for Hire
The tent smelled like pine oil and someone else's vanilla candle, and Delia had long since stopped noticing either.
05 The Green Within
My name is Virginia, I'm twenty-three, and I drive a long-haul truck for a living.
06 The Last Move
Elle was forty-two years old and her feet hurt.
07 The HOA Secret
People in this neighborhood think something is wrong with me.
08 Solid Lessons
So there I was, thirty-four years old, two years divorced, teaching sculpture out of a rented basement in a loud part of Buenos Aires, and…
09 Neon Lava
Savannah wakes up slow.
10 Exit 47
Desiree was twenty-eight years old and she had spent six months of those years talking to a man she had never once seen in person, which…