Gratitude and the Guest Room
Milo Kerr had lasted exactly forty minutes into the reception before the small talk got to him.
Dry and wry stories
Dry and wry stories, from quick reads to long series. Most dry and wry stories here sit in exhibitionist & voyeur and erotic couplings. Reads run 15 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Thread of Thorn, Meridian Harbor and Tangent of Ridge. Readers usually start with “The Confocal Compromise” and “Mulberry and Midnight”. 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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81 82 Bitter Loaf
I got to the market at five in the morning, which is the kind of hour that makes you question every decision that got you there.
83 The Last Box in Unit 14
I'm Denise Cameron, I'm forty-three years old, and that Saturday I was parked outside Storage King with a trunk full of my ex-husband's…
84 Shared Silence at the Rare Bookshelf
Wilma had been looking forward to this evening for three weeks, and she was not going to let a little thing like turning sixty-four make…
85 The Call Sheet
I woke up on the leather couch in the living room of the location house with a quilt tucked under my chin and no memory of how I got there.
86 Puppet Strings and Mortar
I want to start this off by saying everyone in this story is a grown adult.
87 Caprock Lantern
Laurie had told Hilary she would come, and that was the entire problem with telling Hilary things.
88 Cold Aisle Reunion
The snow started coming down sideways around four, and by the time I pulled into the lot at The Cold Aisle my wipers had given up on doing…
89 The Third Between Us
Dina told me about Carla on our third date, back when she was twenty-one and I was twenty-two, and I have thought about that story more…
90 The Winter Accountant
I drove up to Dunewalk on a gray Tuesday in early November.
91 The Kite and the Conservator
The blackout hit at 6:47 on a Thursday evening in October, and I remember the time because I had been watching the drum thermometer like a…
92 Happy Birthday, Again
I woke up at 7:14 on the rusty patio sofa in Mollie's garage with a bathrobe draped over me and no memory of getting there, which is a bad…
93 The Model's Contract
I signed up for the life drawing class on a Tuesday, mostly because my sister wouldn't shut up about me having no hobbies.
94 Borrowed Time
I was twenty minutes into clearing out my locker on my Thursday off, wearing yesterday's sock because I couldn't find the other one, when…
95 The Wrong Shelf
Eugene was twenty-three years old and he had been single for two years, which he thought about more than he wanted to admit.
96 Sole Devotion
The dirt road up to the lodge ate my Corolla's suspension the whole way.
97 The Mortar Confession
It started two years ago, at my grandfather's grave, and I've never told a living soul how petty I actually am.
98 The Garlic Knot
My name is Wendell Cameron, I'm twenty-eight years old, and until last Sunday I thought the strangest thing in my life was the smell of…
99 Forklift and the Fourth
I'm Serena, twenty-four years old, and I drive a forklift for a living.
100 The Late Show
People who come to my auctions think they know me, and honestly I work hard at making sure they do.
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