The General's Leave
The Driftwood Inn sits two blocks from the main gate of Fort Cartwright, and it has been fading in the sun since before either of us was…
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: Lark Threshold, Copper Window and Meadow Signal. 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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41 42 She Just Watched
Rachael pushed through the door of The Rusty Gun at nine forty on a Friday night, already twenty minutes late and blaming the parking lot…
43 Llama Trek Exes
The bus dropped me off on the main street of town at four in the afternoon on a Tuesday, and I stood there with my two bags and my laptop…
44 Waiting on Leave
Rod woke at 5:47 because the birds outside his window had no respect for anyone, least of all a forty-two-year-old man who had drunk two…
45 On Leave
I'd been a paramedic for sixteen years, and I figured by now nothing could make my pulse jump.
46 Borrowed Lace
The whole thing started on a Friday afternoon at the depot, the kind of Friday where nobody had a full truck and the fans did all the…
47 The Librarian's Pass
The library closed at six on Fridays, which in my opinion was a crime against working people, but I don't make the hours.
48 Bite the Order
Magda sleeps like she's on duty.
49 Carrier Privilege
I've been carrying mail in Cactus Flats for twenty-six years.
50 Dust and Headlights
The motel room smelled like cheap air freshener and somebody's cigarettes, and I stood in the doorway of the bathroom for a full minute…
51 A week of surrender
I sat at the bar of the Driftwood Lounge on a Tuesday night, scrolling through another dating app message that went nowhere.
52 The Rejuvenation Pact
Sunny had heard about Solace from two different women at the commissary, which was how she knew it was either a real thing or a really…
53 Last Call at the Lake
Joe backed the truck up the gravel drive as far as it would go, which was not far, because the driveway ended at a pine stump and a wall…
54 Hayloft Honey
Abigail started the dares a month ago, and I still don't fully know what set her off.
55 Sand and Surrender
Marci paid the forty bucks cash and took the key off the hook like the kid behind the counter told her to.
56 Base Leave
I turned sixty-two in March and I still work the night shift at Red Canyon Warehouse, out on the edge of Dry Mesa where the highway bends…
57 Two-Timing the Turntable
Clarence Greene was twenty-three years old and he figured that gave him about six more months of being allowed to make dumb decisions…
58 Shipshape Shenanigans
Rhys had the invitation in his hand.
59 The Leave Pass
I was sitting in the diner off Route 9 doing what I always did on Thursdays, which was eating a grilled cheese and ignoring my phone, when…
60 The Birthday Debt
I was about to turn twenty-eight, on a Tuesday, which felt about right.
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10 to 30 minutesBest military base town stories of 2026Writers known for it
Lark Threshold, Copper Window, Meadow Signal, Current of North
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Most military base town stories take 13 to 22 minutes, and the average is 18. Sort by shortest to start small, or follow a series to get each part as it lands.