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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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21 22 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.
23 The Sticky End of Whipped Cream
I was sorting parcel labels at the distribution center on a Tuesday when Katya dropped the whole thing on me like a sack of wet newspapers.
24 After Hours Set
The last track was fading out and Burton let it go, letting the synth trail off into nothing rather than cutting it clean, because there…
25 Tasting Lessons
Fair week again.
26 The Last Bus
The fifth time I turned the key, the engine did the same thing it had done the other four times.
27 The Rules List
I made the list on a Thursday night, sitting on my couch in my underwear eating cold pad thai out of the box, because that's just the kind…
28 What Mel Wants
Mel Rasmussen was thirty-three years old, and she had been sweating through coveralls at county fairs long enough to estimate how many…
29 The Wrong Knife
The lemonade was bad.
30 The Last Wave
The last guest left around eleven.
31 The Wrong Stall
Let me start by explaining the stall situation, because everything that came after it depends on the stall situation, and I refuse to let…
32 Salt and Static
The storm came in around six, and by seven the lights in the building were doing that thing lights do before they die, a flicker, a buzz…
33 the ribbon king's last secret
Let me start by saying I'm twenty-eight years old and I have never lost a pie competition on purpose, which will matter later.
34 The Zucchini Proposition
I turned forty-six on a Sunday, and I mention this only because it frames everything that came after.
35 The Eggplant Gambit
*I wrote this because I wanted to see a married couple be absolutely feral for each other in the most ridiculous possible setting.
36 The Farmer Takes Her
The county fair came around every July like a bill you forgot you owed, and every year I swore I'd skip it, and every year I went anyway.
37 Harvest Spin
The last light of September goes orange over the fairgrounds around six, and that's when I like the wheel best.
38 The Sommelier's Bluff
The Willow Creek Farmers Market always affected me.
39 The Accordion Incident
Julianne pulled into the bookstore parking lot at four forty, which gave her twenty minutes before the place closed for good.
40 The Rocket's Last Glow
Keiko Takahashi, twenty-eight years old and a pool attendant at the Swanton community aquatic center, had exactly one day off this week.
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