Neptune's Second Sunrise
The shuttle doors opened and Triton Station hit me all at once.
Playful and teasing stories, from quick reads to long series. Most playful and teasing stories here sit in sci-fi & fantasy and first time. Reads run 15 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Cedar Refrain, Opal Fiction and Jasper Narrative. Readers usually start with “Linen Closet Tryst” and “The Rivet and the Rivet”. 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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The shuttle doors opened and Triton Station hit me all at once.
I was forty minutes into a four-hour layover at SFO, Terminal 3, drinking an eight-dollar coffee and watching my connecting flight to…
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Lea walks to the barn from her cabin at half past five, before the sun has done anything worth bragging about, and the high desert air has…
The dog rode in the back seat of Pat's aging station wagon like a man being taken somewhere he didn't want to go.
So here's how I usually tell this story when I've had a couple drinks and I trust the room, I don't do it often, but tonight I do.
Serena Cannon was forty-one years old, she sold medical devices for a living, and she had promised herself she would get through this…
The meeting hall of the Saltside Clock Tower filled up the way it always did before a vote, which was to say slowly and with a lot of…
So there I was, standing on the landing stage at Pier Head at seven o'clock on a Thursday evening, holding a bottle of wine my sister…
I moved to Lark's Hollow in the spring of the year I turned forty-two, which is the kind of sentence I would have hated saying out loud…
Okay so here's how our twelve-hour layover in the middle of Icelandic nowhere started: me complaining.
My name is Nikki Sutherland and I turned thirty-four this spring, which means I have now been a widow for three years, which is longer…
Six years.
I sat on the edge of the set, on the arm of the fake sofa, and held the prop teacup in both hands.
The house smelled like cardboard and somebody else's paint choices, and Alina stood in the middle of the living room with her hands on her…
I turned sixty-four in March and my niece threw me a party at the diner, and somewhere between the cake and the toasts I realized I'd been…
The grinder screamed and threw sparks across the tarp I'd nailed over the carpet, and I was so deep in the work that the knock at my door…
I'm thirty-four years old and I sell commercial flooring for a living, which means I have spent the last eleven years of my life in places…
So here's how my Tuesday went.
The taxi dropped me at the end of the crushed shell road a little after four in the afternoon, and I stood there with my guitar case and…
Playful and teasing stories, from quick reads to long series.
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Most playful and teasing stories take 15 to 24 minutes, and the average is 19. Sort by shortest to start small, or follow a series to get each part as it lands.