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Outdoors stories, from quick reads to long series. Most outdoors stories here sit in erotic couplings and transgender. Reads run 15 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: The Rust Table, The Reed Tide and The Blue Phantom. Readers usually start with “Sourdough Starter” and “The Frequency Board Incident”. 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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21 22 Poppy's Morning After
I woke up before the sun did.
23 The Backdoor Scholarship
I used to plan everything.
24 Trail Light
Sandra saw the sign for Aspen Hollow as the last light faded behind the ridge.
25 Campfire Confessions
My name is Renee Patton, I'm thirty-four years old, and six months ago the woman I thought I'd grow old with packed her speaker, her jade…
26 The Salt House on the Sound
The ferry from Rockland takes forty minutes if the water is calm, and it took forty minutes that day, so I had no excuse to keep my…
27 Seed Bank Reunion
I've been up here on Spitsbergen for two years now, and I can tell you the airport in Longyearbyen is not built for drama.
28 Trail of Desire
I turned thirty-seven in March and somewhere around the second glass of birthday wine I decided I needed proof I still had adventure in me.
29 Tent Nine
Wallace pulled into Cedar Bend at four in the afternoon on a Friday in mid-October.
30 The Surf Coach's Secret
You'd think a woman who teaches surfing for a living would never feel stale.
31 Packing It In
I passed Jasper on the switchbacks like I always do, loudly and with commentary.
32 The Cove's Last Catch
Francine had been telling herself all week that she would skip the thing, and then of course she went anyway.
33 Flashlight Tag
I'll be honest with you, I almost turned the truck around when I saw her.
34 The Blind Dare
Pam had counted the petals of a white rose a hundred and twelve times in her life, and she could not tell you why, only that her fingers…
35 New Campfire Skills
*I wanted to write something that was funny and hot, where the fish-out-of-water aspect made the tenderness hit harder.
36 The Lookout Point
Felix Armstrong was forty-four years old and had just become an expert at packing a car.
37 Last Look
We'd been married seven years and I still couldn't read a map, which is how we ended up at the wrong trailhead for forty minutes while…
38 The Grip of the Gilded Hour
The divorce was final in April.
39 Retirement Rails
I was ringing up a dozen nightcrawlers for a guy in an Alfred Earnhardt hat when the bell over the door went off and she walked in.
40 One Last Night at the Trailhead
Sandra Driscoll was thirty-four years old and she was done.
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