Wings of Gratitude
The announcement came over the speakers at four forty on a Tuesday, and Rana Allbright heard maybe half of it.
Warm and nostalgic nonhuman stories
Stories in NonHuman tagged warm and nostalgic, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 19 to 23 minutes. Writers to know: Fable of Winter, Sable Motive and The Juniper Horizon. Readers usually start with “Wings of Gratitude” and “Thin Walls and Tea”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Warm and nostalgic 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 Needle & Groove
The van was exactly where Tyler said it would be, back behind the shop in a gravel lot full of old paint cans.
04 Late Nights at the Green Room
Diego had one hand flat against the speaker cabinet when the wail came down out of the apartment and through the wiring, and the cabinet…
05 The Fair Was Everywhere
Beverly Freeman is sixty-two years old, and she has been rehearsing this moment for thirty-five years, which is a long time to rehearse…
06 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…
07 Binding of Smoke and Fire
The nursery at the top of the Kramer house had once been a storage room for imported silks, and it still smelled faintly of cedar and old…
08 Snowfall Secrets and the Bookshop Selkie
Chantelle was twenty-four years old, and on a Thursday in late October she walked into The Velvet Spine for her first shift, carrying a…