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…
NonHuman stories
NonHuman stories. NonHuman stories, from quick reads to long series. Reads run 19 to 25 minutes. Writers to know: Harbor Engine, Street of Jasper and The Harbor Table. Readers usually start with “The Diving Bell's Echo” and “The Jam Vendor”. Ranked by how many readers finish them. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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NonHuman stories, ranked by readers
21 22 The Eighth Switchback
Rain on the tent fly sounds like somebody dumping gravel on a drum.
23 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.
24 The Key Under the Stairs
Alyssa had plans for her Saturday, and none of them involved standing in a parking lot behind a bookstore at nine in the morning, staring…
25 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…
26 The Diner Debacle
My name is Lorraine Baker, I'm thirty-four years old, and I've worked security at Hollis Feed and Seed for six years.
27 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…
28 The Green Within
My name is Virginia, I'm twenty-three, and I drive a long-haul truck for a living.
29 Elevator Talk
Meredith Gilbert is thirty-four years old, a quarter troll on her mother's side, and she has been on her feet for nine hours.
30 Letting Go on the Lift
The suitcase problem started before we even got out of the car.
31 The Ladle Pact
Okay, so let me back up and explain how I ended up standing outside a taxidermy shop at eight on a Thursday night, holding a bottle of…
32 Paddle Shift
Bethany found the basement door on the third try, because the second one she pushed turned out to open onto a mop sink and a smell of…
33 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…
34 Trail Light
Sandra saw the sign for Aspen Hollow as the last light faded behind the ridge.
35 After-Hours Anatomy
Russ Payne was twenty-four and mostly good at his job.
36 Spark and Scale
Farah sits at the corner table by the window of the lakefront bar and counts what she has left.
37 The Soundkeeper's Body
The bus dropped me at the end of Fore Street and I stood there with two suitcases and a bad feeling about the weather.
38 The Best Man's Wolf
Monica Samuels, forty-four years old and twenty-two years on the job, pulled her rented Corolla into the gravel drive of the lakeside…
39 Ember of the Pack
Maren Voss was twenty-four years old, and she had never once in her life stayed up past midnight on purpose.
40 The Archivist's Gift
The address on the scrap of paper was wrong.
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Harbor Engine, Street of Jasper, The Harbor Table, Meridian Ticket