The Last Motion
The first time Tessa asked me to write down what I wanted, we were sitting on the floor of my living room eating pad thai out of the…
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The first time Tessa asked me to write down what I wanted, we were sitting on the floor of my living room eating pad thai out of the…
I had spent the whole day on my knees scrubbing other people's toilets, which at forty-two is rougher on the back than it used to be, and…
Sheryl had learned to play the theremin the same year she learned to run a bingo hall, which was to say badly at first and then with a…
I'm Isa, I'm twenty-five, and I'm in Lisbon because I'm petty.
You'd think after forty years of living in Millerstown I'd be used to the quiet.
The storm hit around three in the afternoon.
I am thirty-six years old and supposedly a professional, and I sat on the bed of a portside inn in Nova Scotia with a pen in my hand…
The office at Bell's Automotive smelled like coffee and brake dust, which is not a combination I'd recommend to anybody.
Paul had been coming to the regional insurance conference in Columbus for eleven years, and he could honestly say it never got more…
Leah was thirty-five the winter the snow came early, and she still counted herself lucky every Thursday when she walked out of her studio…
The sign on the gate still read Dry Creek Ranch in paint that was peeling, and I had been reading that sign for thirty-three years.
Teresa Smithson walked into the bunker at dusk the way she had walked into it for fourteen years, which was to say without thinking much…
*This one came from a moody image of an empty school gym at night and the idea of finding intimacy in the most unexpected places.
Damian Sanders was twenty-eight and he could not remember the last time Grace had cried in front of him before tonight.
My name is Claude, I'm sixty-four years old, and I've been running the pharmacy on Harbor Street for eleven years now.
The rules were typed up on a napkin.
The galley smells like burnt rehydrated coffee and someone else's feet.
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…
Dear Lamar, I am sixty-two years old and I am writing you a letter because if I had to say this out loud I would rather be swallowed by…
*This one's for anyone who's ever felt more alive under a curious gaze.
Delta Contour, The Maple Garden, The Smoke Record, Salt Narrative
A couple who have been dating a while, not married stories, from quick reads to long series.
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