Lunar Interval
Dolores had been sitting in her parked car outside the planetarium for twenty minutes, which she knew because she kept checking the clock…
Matter-of-fact stories
Matter-of-fact stories, from quick reads to long series. Most matter-of-fact stories here sit in fetish and romance. Reads run 14 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Phrase of Olive, Tawny Grammar and Keeper of Ember. Readers usually start with “Drum Room Touch” and “Witness at the Customs Shed”. 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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41 42 Seeds of Misunderstanding
I'm thirty-two years old and I own a board game cafe in a small town on the Nova Scotia coast, and for the past two weeks I have been…
43 Chime and Claim
Erika had a rule about herself, and the rule was this: she was never surprised.
44 Oakum and Tesla
Tommy was fifty-two and had been a welder for most of those years, and he knew what he wanted when he saw it.
45 Keynote Kink
I signed up to volunteer at the conference for a dumb reason, which is that my Thursday nights had turned into laundry and a baking show.
46 The Snow Devil
The bus dropped me at the top of the cliff road at ten in the morning, and I have to tell you, my first thought was that Bette's…
47 Fields of Yield
Kristina pulled her Honda onto the gravel lot at eleven sharp.
48 The stranger at the wedding
My cousin Debbie got married on a Saturday in June, at a restored farmhouse out past the county line.
49 Birthday Lease
The roommate bailed on a Tuesday.
50 Keys in the Ink
I'm forty-four years old, newly divorced, and I was standing in the parking lot of the Snowy River Curling Club arguing with a laminated…
51 The Engine Room Typewriter
The typewriter sat on a workbench under the one working bulb in the engine room of the old naval ship.
52 The HOA Bylaws Exception
My name is Pat, I'm 33, and at 2:13 AM on a Thursday I was crouched under my desk in my garage tracing a Cat6 cable that had stopped…
53 Coffee and Closure
Brianna had been in the grocery store for twenty minutes and she still hadn't picked a cereal.
54 Night Shift at the Cannery
I arranged the pillows on the couch for the third time that evening, which was ridiculous because nobody was coming, or at least nobody I…
55 The Blue Hour Sessions
The job came in on a Tuesday, which I remember because Tuesdays are when I sit by the phone as a woman waiting on a jury verdict.
56 The Night Audit
I've worked the night audit at the Thornwood Inn for fifteen years.
57 The Brewer's Request
The first time I ever wore a dress I was twenty-two, and it wasn't even my idea, not exactly.
58 The Spreading Stain
Ida was thirty-four years old and had been driving a forklift since she was twenty-two, which meant she knew a thing or two about heavy…
59 The Locked Pantry
Joan Tomlinson was forty-four years old and she had been arranging the same tray of canapés for ten minutes without actually arranging…
60 Sound of Revenge
The day I found out Ben moved in next door to my office, I nearly threw my coffee at the wall.
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10 to 30 minutesBest matter-of-fact stories of 2026Writers known for it
Phrase of Olive, Tawny Grammar, Keeper of Ember, The Breeze Draft
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