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…
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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41 42 Scarecrow Hollow
Bonnie had been working other people's land for most of her sixty-four years, so house-sitting for Rae felt like a natural enough…
43 Rules for the Lodge
Carmen's car nearly didn't make the last stretch of gravel road.
44 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…
45 Static and Steel
The 2 AM shift at Sudz City is the kind of job people don't believe exists until they see it.
46 The Things We Do After Shift
I get home at six, which feels like a crime already because I have been traveling since Tuesday and all I want in the world is a shower…
47 The Week She Took the Lead
Kelsey came home on a Wednesday, tired from three days of flying charter routes out of Tucson.
48 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.
49 Bridge to You
Okay so let me start with the basics.
50 The Puppet and the Pastry Chef
Earl had been a welder for thirty-one years, and in all that time he had learned that a man could keep his hands busy enough that his…
51 Elevator Rodeo
The mare came out of the chute with explosive speed.
52 Honey in the Bells
Aly was elbow-deep in a kitchen sink in the new subdivision when her phone went off, rattling against the countertop like it was trying to…
53 Salt and Stone
Laila was twenty-eight years old, and on a gray Thursday in February she signed her divorce papers in a bakery.
54 Regular Order
The Daily Dose is the kind of bar where nobody learns your name unless you hand it over, and I never handed mine over, not once in the…
55 The Baker's Bet
Mai had run her bakery for thirty-one years, and in all that time she had never once shared a workspace, a kitchen, or a wall with anyone…
56 The Weight of Her Ink
There's something strange about how intimacy starts.
57 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…
58 One Last Night at the Trailhead
Sandra Driscoll was thirty-four years old and she was done.
59 Eclipse Over the Boathouse
The film set was a boathouse, which already made it stranger than most sets Finn had worked on in his three years of cooking for film crews.
60 Church Sale Heartstrings
Sadie had a note on her phone that said "remember this" and nothing under it, which was very like her.