The Pie Auction
The pie auction wrapped up at ten forty and by eleven Bev and I had the last of the money counted, boxed, and signed off on, three hundred…
Stories in Toys & Masturbation tagged longtime friends, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 11 to 12 minutes. Writers to know: Quartz Wave, The Quartz Page and Frost Rhythm. Readers usually start with “The Pie Auction” and “Last Night at the Gym”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The pie auction wrapped up at ten forty and by eleven Bev and I had the last of the money counted, boxed, and signed off on, three hundred…
My name is Perry Brooks, I am fifty-one years old, and last Friday night I did something at the gym that I had never done in five years of…
I'm forty-two years old, and last Tuesday I got off in a recording studio control room with an old bandmate watching.
The day I found out Ben moved in next door to my office, I nearly threw my coffee at the wall.
I got to the common room at nine in the morning.
The bus dropped me off at the bottom of the hill and I nearly fell getting down the steps because I was so excited.
The winter had gone on so long I'd stopped keeping track of the weeks.
My name is Barbara and I turned twenty-nine back in March, which I mention because my ex-husband used to say I'd act thirty-five by the…
*This story came from a quiet curiosity about what happens when two old friends break their own unspoken rules for one night.
I almost turned the car around twice on the way over, sitting at the light on Hollis Ave with my blinker going and my coffee going cold in…
I should say upfront how this got started, I guess, except I hate that word upfront, so I'll just say it plain.
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…