Hair as the Only Tether
The grant rejection came on a Tuesday, and by Thursday night I was watching Veronica slap her palm flat on the sticky bar top of The Pit…
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The grant rejection came on a Tuesday, and by Thursday night I was watching Veronica slap her palm flat on the sticky bar top of The Pit…
The winter had gone on so long I'd stopped keeping track of the weeks.
The ferry strike started Tuesday and by Thursday I was stuck.
I'm forty-four years old and I still own a wooden spinning arrow from a drinking game.
My locker sticks again.
The spine of that notebook went with a crack I felt in my wrist, a loud electric snap that rang off the teak ceiling of the old fish depot…
I woke up with an arm across my ribs that wasn't mine.
I turn twenty-five on Sunday and I've been weird about it for weeks.
Jake here.
Lara had been a delivery driver for nine years, and in that time she had learned that the jobs worth remembering never looked like…
Dorian Freemont, 34 years old and gainfully employed as a software developer, stood at his kitchen counter eating cereal at nine in the…
The breakup was three weeks old when I finally walked into McGee's alone.
I turned sixty-two on a Tuesday, and I spent it at The Sump with Cade Griffin, same as I'd spent most of my good nights for the last…
Magda has been my best friend for fifteen years, which is longer than I've kept any plant alive, and I've killed a lot of plants.
*This one came from thinking about how the most interesting things can happen in the most boring places.
I hadn't been back to Lembeke in twenty-six years.
Sarah pulls her Honda into the gravel lot at the Rustic Relic Antique Mall at 10:40 on a Saturday morning, and she sits there a minute…
My life at 44 was basically the same week on repeat.
I got to the Boronia Spring at four in the afternoon, which is the worst possible time to be anywhere in the Queensland outback.
The feed store lot was mostly empty at a quarter to six, just the dusty spots where the fair trucks had parked all week and two flatbeds…
Longtime friends stories, from quick reads to long series.
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Most longtime friends stories take 13 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.