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…
Stories in Transgender tagged playful and teasing, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 20 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: The Roan Thread, Gold Reverie and Lark Threshold. Readers usually start with “After Hours Ink” and “Pie and Prejudice”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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…
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*I wanted to write a story about a long marriage and the kind of play that keeps people alive to each other.
Gus had been awake since six, and it was honestly kind of insulting.
Okay so let me start with the basics.
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