The Tile Job
I took the whole first week of June off, which for me is basically a miracle.
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I took the whole first week of June off, which for me is basically a miracle.
Jeannie here.
*This one's for the people who've ever been the weird one in the room and who know that real danger can feel safer than another polite…
I'm sixty-four years old and I don't apologize for anything anymore.
I got to the gillnet rack at ten in the morning, a cardboard box balanced on one hip and the wind coming off the mountains hard enough to…
Alison Clarke was thirty-six years old, and she still owned a scribe she'd bought at a county fair fifteen years ago.
Randi McAllister, thirty-three years old and covered in goat cheese brine before noon, stood at the workbench and stared down her boyfriend.
The Driftwood sat at the end of a lane that smelled like diesel and salt.
Seven months before I got on that shuttle, I was standing in my kitchen at eleven at night eating cold noodles straight out of the pot…
I was thirty-five years old and had just wasted two hours of my life listening to a man describe his mother's hip surgery in detail, and…
My name is Mack, I am sixty-two years old, and I have never once backed down from a contest in my whole life.
Nobody tells you the worst part of getting out is the quiet.
The bridge had been a joke for years, and then it wasn't.
My bank account hit eleven dollars and some change on a Tuesday, and I sat in my car outside the library where I'd just finished a shift…
I want to start by saying I'm twenty-four years old, I've been married for a year and a half, and I work as a zookeeper, which is a fancy…
The parking lot had one truck left in it.
I quit my job on a Tuesday and the plan was to have one last party in the storage unit that Friday.
The generator had quit again around nine, which meant I was grading forestry exams by propane light, which meant my eyes were bleeding…
I'm Maya, thirty-one, and I've spent most of my adult life being the kind of person who plans things.
My sixty-third birthday is in November, and I have decided to treat it the way I used to treat manuscript deadlines, with a mixture of…
The Ridge Note, Marigold Hearth, Dusk Story, The Prairie Poet
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