The Pawnshop Line Switch
The rain was the kind that doesn't fall so much as hang there, and I'd been standing under the awning next to the diner for ten minutes.
Stories in Toys & Masturbation tagged tender and slow, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 11 to 13 minutes. Writers to know: Quartz Wave, Quota of Timber and Odyssey of Topaz. Readers usually start with “The Pawnshop Line Switch” and “Empty Seat”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The rain was the kind that doesn't fall so much as hang there, and I'd been standing under the awning next to the diner for ten minutes.
My son Lou had been gone to college for six weeks when I finally did something for myself, and I mean really for myself.
I still don't know why I said yes to meeting at her gallery instead of a restaurant as anyone else would.
The drive out to Willow Creek took longer than the sat nav promised, mostly because the last two miles were single track with hedges…
My life runs on a schedule.
I got the promotion on a Tuesday, and by the time I pulled into our lot the sun was already going down behind the storage units across the…
I'm Cora, twenty-eight, and I run the ferry booth out at Port Blossom.
*This story came from a quiet curiosity about what happens when two old friends break their own unspoken rules for one night.
The road stopped being a road about two miles back.
*This one came from the idea of what happens after the gallery closes.
The tandem bike showed up on a Tuesday, and it wasn't even ours.