The Last Move
Elle was forty-two years old and her feet hurt.
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
61 62 The Analyst and the Ex
Milton Paterson was thirty-six years old and he owned eleven boxes of stuff.
63 The Estimator's Visit
The agency had said seven o'clock.
64 The HOA Secret
People in this neighborhood think something is wrong with me.
65 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…
66 Tigress in Transit
Jeanette Swanson was thirty-four years old and had been welding for fourteen of those years, and she still could not get over how much she…
67 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…
68 Protocol Alpha
Noel Oakley was fifty-two years old and had spent the last five of those years eating dinner alone at his own kitchen table, which was the…
69 Key to the Vault
Isabel pulled her van through the gates at five minutes to six on a Thursday evening in October, right as the light was going from gold to…
70 Poured Over
Zahra woke up on a mattress that was not hers, in a room she did not recognize, with one shoe on and one shoe off, and for a good thirty…
71 Root Protocol
The basement office of TerraSync smelled like cold coffee and wet earth, and that alone nearly took Ava Pearson apart at the knees.
72 Heat Above the City
Regina Reyes was twenty-eight years old and lying flat on her back on a warehouse roof in the middle of July, and she was thinking about…
73 Midnight Tango with a Pearl Monster
The soundstage smelled like dust and old rope, and I mean that in the best way.
74 Neon Lava
Savannah wakes up slow.
75 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…
76 The Rooftop Wife
The bus let Ashley off at the corner at 2:10 in the morning.
77 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…
78 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.
79 The Curator's Game
Derrick is fighting with the canopy again.
80 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…
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Harbor Engine, Street of Jasper, The Harbor Table, Meridian Ticket