The Cleaner Wins
Kristen here, forty-three years old, and I clean offices for a living, which means I know exactly how much sugar the average person spills…
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Kristen here, forty-three years old, and I clean offices for a living, which means I know exactly how much sugar the average person spills…
Tilly Cartwright stood at the counter of the Lough Island post office and checked her watch for the third time.
It was a Friday night at The Gilded Fork and we were slammed.
The knock came at two in the morning.
Keira pulled the truck onto the gravel track slow, careful, the way she always did when the plan mattered.
The pie auction happens every February at the Shady Rest Motel, out at the edge of the sheep country, and I have been going to it for the…
I've been with Terri three years now, and in all that time I'd never once been to her studio.
I've been a bartender at the Rusty Tap for eleven years.
The rental car rattled up the gravel drive and Olivia Watkins leaned toward the windshield to read the hand-painted sign.
I'm Russ, twenty-eight, and I run the gear library in the old railway tunnel at Karioi.
I was fifty-two years old and I was packing boxes full of glass eyes on a Saturday afternoon.
I turned sixty-five in March and I still have not gotten used to the word retired.
I was packing up my toolbox on my kitchen floor when she hit me with it.
I've been stretching on the pier at dawn for six years now, ever since the co-op put that wooden platform on the end and some yoga teacher…
I want to tell you about the night everything changed for me, and I'm sixty-two years old, so you know right away this isn't some college…
The plane landed in Albuquerque a little after two in the afternoon, and I rented a car and drove north for three hours through country…
The invitation said seven o'clock, and I got there at 7:12 because I drove past the house twice.
Trey came up the stairs of the walk-up at 11:40 on a Tuesday night with his jacket over one shoulder and the smell of the kitchen still in…
I've lived in Crescent Beach for two years now, and I can tell you exactly what winter is like here.
The conference had hit the wall around hour four of day two.
The Ridge Note, Marigold Hearth, Dusk Story, The Prairie Poet
Funny and chatty stories, from quick reads to long series.
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Most funny and chatty stories take 14 to 24 minutes, and the average is 19. Sort by shortest to start small, or follow a series to get each part as it lands.