The Lockbox Trail
*This one came from wanting to write something patient and quiet, where the fetish isn't a fast track to release but a slow-burning…
Outdoors stories
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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41 42 Dust and Rivalry
*I wanted to write a story where two people who are basically flirting through insults finally collide in a hot, dusty place.
43 The Watch Fire
*This one came from a quiet place, something about the intimacy of a shared secret at a loud event, and how the best first times are often…
44 Trail's Edge
Let me tell you about the worst idea I've had in years, and I once tried to learn kiteboarding at thirty-four.
45 The Raccoon That Fixed Us
Akari Ortega was thirty-four years old and she was sulking about a granola bar she hadn't lost yet.
46 Trail Rules
I got the tent up in about twenty minutes, which felt like a personal record considering I had not slept in a real bed in six months…
47 The Birthday Camper
I turned twenty-nine on a Tuesday, which is the worst day to have a birthday at a campground café.
48 Ember Trail
Wade Caulfield took the last exit before the town of Tropic and drove up the switchbacks with the windows down.
49 The Fire Watch
*Just a story about two old-timers who find a little comfort in a cold forest.
50 The Watch We Both Gave Away
The GPS said Ponderosa Pines Campground was twelve miles off the highway, but the GPS had already lied to me twice, so I trusted the…
51 The Return Policy
I am thirty-eight years old and I spent last Saturday being yelled at by a man in a foam tent hat, and that is somehow not even the worst…
52 Trail's End Education
Danny Kimura was twenty-nine years old and he could count on one hand the number of conversations he'd had that lasted longer than a…
53 The Tent at Cedar Spring
The gravel road hadn't changed.
54 Trail Gratitude
My name is Shauna Snow, I'm fifty-two years old, and until last Friday I had never in my life been exactly where I was standing at dusk…
55 Foxfire Waltz
Vickie Richardson was forty-one years old and driving a mail truck up a gravel road in the Cascade foothills, and she thought, not for the…
56 Deralied by Love
The Ponderosa Campground sat at the end of a gravel road that had been trying to shake my car apart for the last twenty minutes.
57 The Rival's Touch
I hit Eagle's Perch Overlook at dusk, six hours of climbing in my legs and a first place medal from the regional cook-off still rattling…
58 Air in the Bones
I'm sitting on Timmy's porch with a glass of iced tea going warm beside me, and I want the record to show that when he asked me to water…
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