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…
Dark and intense transgender stories
Stories in Transgender tagged dark and intense, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 23 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: Cypress Pen, Midnight Line and The Blue Phantom. Readers usually start with “Birdcage Open” and “The Pie Safe Promise”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Dark and intense transgender stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Pie Safe Promise
The package had been sitting on Tracy's porch for three days before she noticed it, mostly because she only walked out to the mailbox on…
03 The Last Rep
I locked the front door at nine.
04 Campfire Confessions
My name is Renee Patton, I'm thirty-four years old, and six months ago the woman I thought I'd grow old with packed her speaker, her jade…
05 The Week She Took the Lead
Kelsey came home on a Wednesday, tired from three days of flying charter routes out of Tucson.
06 Salt and Stone
Laila was twenty-eight years old, and on a gray Thursday in February she signed her divorce papers in a bakery.
07 The Birthday Scheme
Tracey, thirty-four and single, a pharmacist with a spreadsheet for a soul, stands at the bottom of the fire escape at a quarter past five…
08 The Soil Test
I married into a world I don't understand.
09 Airport Pretzels and Second Chances
*This one came from thinking about the particular ache of wanting someone you barely know, and the terror of being clumsy with something…