Sourdough Starter
The night shift at the Nelson veterinary clinic is mostly me and a radio turned down low, walking the ward at two in the morning to check…
Transgender stories
Transgender stories. Transgender stories, from quick reads to long series. Reads run 21 to 25 minutes. Writers to know: North Sonnet, Garnet Cursor and Gold Reverie. Readers usually start with “Sourdough Starter” and “The Choir's Secret Ingredient”. 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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01 02 The Choir's Secret Ingredient
Luca was twenty-eight years old, recently divorced, and standing in a church basement holding a sheet of hymn numbers like it was a…
03 A Stranger's Familiar
The night started with a glass of bad wine, which is not how I thought my life would change, but that's how most things go.
04 Gloves Off, Hearts On
My week had been the same six days in a row, which was driving pills and inhalers and the occasional oxygen tank around town in a white…
05 Birdcage Open
Rosaline got there twenty minutes early, which was stupid, because now she had to stand around looking like she wasn't standing around…
06 Sun Salutation, Sound Check Seduction
Eddie was twenty-eight years old and he had come to the conclusion, somewhere around the second month after his divorce went through, that…
07 The Sourdough Surprise
Jeannie here.
08 After Hours Ink
My name is Darrell, I'm fifty-two years old, and on the night this happened I had been running my own shop for exactly six months, which…
09 A practical arrangement
The risotto was supposed to be for a client consultation on Thursday, but I had made too much stock and the arborio was sitting there on…
10 Shift Change Rules
The generator was already humming when I pushed through the back door of the clinic at eleven, my flashlight in one hand and my keys in my…
11 Pie and Prejudice
I moved to Lark's Hollow in the spring of the year I turned forty-two, which is the kind of sentence I would have hated saying out loud…
12 Lunar Interval
Dolores had been sitting in her parked car outside the planetarium for twenty minutes, which she knew because she kept checking the clock…
13 Rooftop Honey
Jen had been in the city for exactly three weeks when she climbed the last flight of stairs with two vinyl records under her arm and a bag…
14 Ink and Ember
I post poems on a forum nobody's heard of.
15 The Dollhouse Delivery
Rina pulled into the parking lot of the Grand Summit Hotel at eight in the morning, sat in her rental car for a minute, and gave herself…
16 Keys in the Ink
I'm forty-four years old, newly divorced, and I was standing in the parking lot of the Snowy River Curling Club arguing with a laminated…
17 Tonight I'm Someone Else
*I wanted to write a story about a long marriage and the kind of play that keeps people alive to each other.
18 Ex-Proof
I've been a bartender at the Rusty Tap for eleven years.
19 Third Bid, Last Call
The St.
20 The Roast of Your Life
Noah had been driving past Bourbon & Bean for about four months before he finally turned in.