The Talent Show Loaf
Ethel here, and I should say up front that I'm forty-four and have been living on the M.V.
Stories in Toys & Masturbation tagged funny and chatty, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 10 to 12 minutes. Writers to know: The Topaz Tempo, Frost Rhythm and Clover Story. Readers usually start with “The Talent Show Loaf” and “The Pumpkin Show Proposition”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Ethel here, and I should say up front that I'm forty-four and have been living on the M.V.
The drizzle started around ten and never made up its mind to be anything worse, so I finished my loop with my cap soaked through at the…
I had spent the whole day on my knees scrubbing other people's toilets, which at forty-two is rougher on the back than it used to be, and…
It was a Friday night at The Gilded Fork and we were slammed.
I'd been driving past The Velvet Garter for three Tuesdays before I finally parked the car on the fourth Tuesday.
I finished my shift at nine and hung my apron on the hook by the kitchen door.
The sun was going down over the Ibarra place and I was out at the far fence line with a spool of wire and a pair of pliers, sweating…
I got to the studio at nine in the morning, still in the jeans I'd worn to work for the last ten years.
Another Tuesday, another ten hours of my hands smelling like garlic no matter how many times I scrubbed them.