The Leather in the Boxes
I'm Amy, sixty-two years old, and I've been an electrician for thirty-eight years.
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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Matter-of-fact stories, ranked by readers
61 62 Gear Shift
The show ended around nine, and by ten the fairground lot was nothing but empty sawhorses and a few stragglers towing their trailers home.
63 The Bronze Key
The gravel in the drive-in lot had gone soft with grass.
64 The Cauldron's Light
Glenna woke up alone in her own bed, which was the first confusing thing.
65 His Secret Room
Elly had been in the house for exactly one hour when she started arguing with her own suitcase.
66 The Odd Loaf
Ren pulled up outside the old house on Marine Row at half past nine, exactly when Lars had told him to be there on Tuesday.
67 The Key Under the Stairs
Alyssa had plans for her Saturday, and none of them involved standing in a parking lot behind a bookstore at nine in the morning, staring…
68 Pit Stop Surprise
Turning twenty-nine is a weird kind of birthday, because nobody warns you that it feels like running out of road.
69 Séance Frequency
My name's Aly, I'm fifty-four, and I own a ghost tour company in Edinburgh.
70 Drywall and Dust
I was twenty-eight that fall, and I want to get the ages out of the way up front because people always ask.
71 Steam and Static
I woke up at six something in the morning in a bed that wasn't mine, in a room that smelled like cedar and sulfur, and for about four…
72 The Auger and the Paddock
Britney Robbins was forty-four years old and had been a hairdresser for twenty-two years, and in all that time she had learned that when a…
73 Silent Watch
I've been working the graveyard shift at the Omicron Conference Hotel for eleven years now.
74 Keyholder's Gratitude
I do a lot of house calls on Sundays.
75 The Spice Rack Arrangement
Rob was twenty-four years old and three months into his new life on the island, which so far consisted of a rented room above the chowder…
76 Scarlett's Sunday
Washington Clausen had a system, and the system was this: everything got packed into the blue plastic tote the night before, so Sunday…
77 The County Line
The thing about house sitting for a farmer you've met exactly twice is that you spend the whole drive out there trying to remember which…
78 Tidewater
Daniel drove the whole way with his jaw set like a man chewing on a grudge, which, to be fair, he was.
79 The Green Ribbon Prize
I grew up on this farm, and I will tell you that an empty barn is a strange sound.
80 Practice Room Confessions
The keycard Cherise lent me feels warm in my hand, like it knows it shouldn't be here either.
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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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