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…
Strangers transgender stories
Stories in Transgender tagged strangers, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 19 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Paradox of Drift, Garnet Story and Oak Syntax. 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.
Strangers transgender stories, ranked by readers
01 02 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…
03 Third Bid, Last Call
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04 Drywall and Dust
I was twenty-eight that fall, and I want to get the ages out of the way up front because people always ask.
05 The Bridesmaid Rules
Babs Cartwright had been planning this weekend for eleven months.
06 The Sundial's Chime
I am forty-three years old, I work in a museum in Manchester, and two months ago my girlfriend of four years moved out and told me she…
07 Static and Steel
The 2 AM shift at Sudz City is the kind of job people don't believe exists until they see it.
08 The Key to Next Door
Wendy had lived in the building for exactly three weeks and she still could not get the damn key to turn on the first try.
09 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…
10 Rooftop Arrangement
Another Saturday night, and I was still recovering from Friday's guy, who talked about his fantasy football league for two hours.
11 Closing Time at the Wall
Vicki was halfway up a yellow problem she had no business being on when the speakers crackled.