Salt Flat Night
I turned twenty-eight on a Thursday and I drove out to the Great Basin salt flats that same day.
Farmers market stories
Farmers market stories, from quick reads to long series. Most farmers market stories here sit in letters & transcripts and bdsm. Reads run 15 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Ash Crossing, Neon Chapter and Midnight Stage. Readers usually start with “Salt Flat Night” and “The Jam Vendor”. 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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01 02 The Jam Vendor
Debra figured the market would be dead on a Thursday, so she left her van in the gravel lot behind the grange hall and gave herself twenty…
03 The Pumpkin Show Proposition
The drizzle started around ten and never made up its mind to be anything worse, so I finished my loop with my cap soaked through at the…
04 Tilting at the Fair
I still think about that night on Little Gull Island, how the whole thing started with a flask and a dare and nobody planning anything.
05 The Theremin Show
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…
06 The Kumite Letter
I want to start by saying I'm fifty-four years old and I've been an electrician for thirty-one years, and I have never once done anything…
07 A Lock and a Leash
I got to the Oakhaven market at seven in the morning, which was early enough that the dew was still on the canvas tents and half the…
08 The Five A.M. Map
I wrote the email the night before the funeral, which I know sounds bad, but hear me out.
09 Oakum and Tesla
Tommy was fifty-two and had been a welder for most of those years, and he knew what he wanted when he saw it.
10 Just a Hookup at the Market
Saturday mornings at the Oakridge farmers market always start the same way for me.
11 The Last Frequency
The rain had been coming down since Dayton, and by the time the van rolled into Lark County the fair's lights had gone soft and smeared…
12 The Sundial Shift
Tina was twenty-seven and had never once been inside the locomotive wash shed behind the dock.
13 The Lyre and the Hat
So here's how it starts, or how I remember it starting anyway, because honestly some of that weekend has gone soft in my head and other…
14 The Quietest Revenge
Charles didn't hear me come into the kitchen, because Charles never heard anything anymore when he was out there sanding at midnight, and…
15 Needle & Groove
The van was exactly where Tyler said it would be, back behind the shop in a gravel lot full of old paint cans.
16 The Apron Strings
My name is Naomi, I'm thirty-three, and I fix transmissions for a living.
17 The Beekeeper's Frequency
I have a problem and the problem is the 8:14 express, or more accurately it's me, because I know exactly when that train comes through the…
18 Fire Pit Glass
The generator hummed behind me.
19 Salt and Resin
Roberta Partridge had sold flowers on the same stretch of roadside for twenty years.
20 The County Line
The thing about house sitting for a farmer you've met exactly twice is that you spend the whole drive out there trying to remember which…
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