The Prop Master's Wife
The streetlight outside Greenwood Taxidermy had been flickering since before I got the job, and it was still flickering the night I drove…
Military base town stories
Military base town stories, from quick reads to long series. Most military base town stories here sit in crossdressing and gay male. Reads run 13 to 22 minutes. Writers to know: Cypress Watch, The Autumn Epilogue and Gold Reverie. Readers usually start with “The Prop Master's Wife” and “The Sauna Letters”. 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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01 02 The Sauna Letters
My name is Sally Farrell, I'm forty-four years old, and I have been dating Ken Carlisle for six years now.
03 What I Kept Hidden
My name is Leanne, I'm thirty-four years old, and I own the only auction house in Fort Baines.
04 The Barge Photographs
Hospital waiting rooms are a strange kind of place when you think about them.
05 Caged Devotion
I got to Port Stephen on a Friday afternoon in June.
06 The Filter Game
Kimberly got the call at four in the afternoon on a Tuesday, standing in the back of the bar she worked at with a crate of limes on the…
07 a dress too small for him
The bookstore was closing for good that Friday, and I had talked myself into stopping by mostly because I didn't know what else to do with…
08 The Quiet Shift
You'd think after forty years of living in Millerstown I'd be used to the quiet.
09 Tar and Tenderness
The tarworks smells like a bad decision that got left out in the sun, and that night it smelled worse than usual, because they'd fired up…
10 The Sour Hour
I turned sixty-two last March and I celebrated it the way I have celebrated most things lately, that is to say I did not celebrate it.
11 The Lieutenant and the Baker
Walter Hartman had been forty-two years old for three months, and he still wasn't used to it.
12 The Postcards from Port Blakely
The night Vernon left, I did the math on the motel receipt and laughed.
13 Leave Request
The thing about Towner during leave season is that it empties out in a way that feels personal.
14 The Auditor's Chaos
Edmund Prickett was thirty-eight years old, and he believed in Tuesday.
15 Watchman on the Green
*This one came from the idea of discovering desire in a place you never expected to feel it.
16 Lost and Found Under the Stars
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…
17 Rear Echelon
Thirty days of leave and nowhere to go.
18 The North Watch
The duffel was heavier than it needed to be, and that was my own fault.
19 The Pie Safe Promise
The package had been sitting on Tracy's porch for three days before she noticed it, mostly because she only walked out to the mailbox on…
20 Sand and Smoke
I was thirty-five years old and bored all the way down to my shoes.
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10 to 30 minutesBest military base town stories of 2026Writers known for it
Cypress Watch, The Autumn Epilogue, Gold Reverie, Vermilion Fiction
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