Empty Nest, Fresh Spark
My name is Debbie.
Law office stories, from quick reads to long series. Most law office stories here sit in bdsm and humor & satire. Reads run 13 to 23 minutes. Writers to know: Summit Echo, Route of Cinder and Cobalt Ticket. Readers usually start with “Empty Nest, Fresh Spark” and “The Cobbler's Lesson”. 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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My name is Debbie.
The storm hit the law firm around four in the afternoon, right when I was halfway through the conference room carpet with the extractor…
Okay so, the Mustard Festival in Urnäsch.
I woke up in a bed that wasn't mine with somebody's arm heavy across my ribs and sunlight coming through blinds I did not recognize, and I…
Nicky Middleton had her arm in the stock tank up to the shoulder, breaking ice out of it with a hammer, when her phone buzzed against her…
My apartment got too quiet after my roommate Gary moved out.
I lost my wallet somewhere between the car park and the chippy, which is the sort of thing you do when you're fifty-two and your sister…
The first time Tessa asked me to write down what I wanted, we were sitting on the floor of my living room eating pad thai out of the…
The rain came down all at once, like somebody up there dumped a bucket, and I stomped across the yard to the little hut at the edge of the…
*This story came from watching how a shared experience, like jury duty, can turn two strangers into allies before they ever touch.
The divorce papers came through in March, nine months ago now, and I still haven't figured out what to do with the cabinet where my coffee…
My name is Nikki Sutherland and I turned thirty-four this spring, which means I have now been a widow for three years, which is longer…
Kyle Webb pulls his truck up to the loading dock at four in the afternoon, and the whole island feels like a kettle somebody forgot to…
The elevator on the fifth floor had been broken since Tuesday, which meant everybody else took the stairs, which meant I got to be the…
Douglas Tanner checked his fire escape every night before bed.
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…
My name is Bobbie, I'm fifty-two years old, and until three weeks ago I had never spent a night outside the Pacific Northwest.
Evangeline Oakley was forty-two years old and she had been fuming at her neighbor for six solid months.
My girlfriend left me six months ago.
I turned sixty-five in March and I still have not gotten used to the word retired.
Summit Echo, Route of Cinder, Cobalt Ticket, Journal of Laurel
Law office stories, from quick reads to long series.
Some stories are free to read in full, with no account. The rest open with a free preview; members read everything.
Most law office stories take 13 to 23 minutes, and the average is 18. Sort by shortest to start small, or follow a series to get each part as it lands.