Watched and Wanting
The night I got locked out of my building was the second Tuesday of October, which mattered because Pelican Shores basically shuts down…
Raw and blunt stories, from quick reads to long series. Most raw and blunt stories here sit in anal and fetish. Reads run 14 to 23 minutes. Writers to know: The Clover Voyage, Vermilion Works and Laurel Stanza. Readers usually start with “Peony Season” and “Taste of the Bitter Herb”. 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 night I got locked out of my building was the second Tuesday of October, which mattered because Pelican Shores basically shuts down…
The notice was taped to my apartment door when I got home from work on Thursday, and it took me about three reads to figure out what it…
The match went off on the first try, which I'd been counting on, because a man who can't light a fire with one strike in front of Nia…
The sink in 2B had been leaking for a month, according to Francesca, and by the time I got under it Tuesday night the cabinet floor was…
The sign on the gate still read Dry Creek Ranch in paint that was peeling, and I had been reading that sign for thirty-three years.
I have been a museum curator for six years now, and in that time I have learned that the worst days always start with a phone call from a…
Nadine Conroy, forty-four years old, dentist, watched the departure board flip to CANCELED for the third time that day.
I reminded myself that thirty-three wasn't old, even though my reflection in the dark lodge window said otherwise.
I'm forty-two years old and I make wine for a living, which sounds more romantic than it is.
The trouble with Tiffany and Asher was simple.
Kathy was twenty-three, and she was learning that freedom mostly felt like a headache.
*This one came from thinking about how even people who love each other can get lonely in the same bed.
I unlock the conservation lab at 10:47 PM.
Angelina was forty-four years old and had been flying commercial routes for twenty years, and she had never once lied to her first officer.
*This one came from the idea of two people meeting for a hookup and finding their lives intersect in ways neither planned.
Some nights the dispatch desk felt less like a job and more like a chair I rented from the university.
So there I am, five forty in the morning, standing in a field of lavender in a two-thousand-pound suit, and I want to tell you I felt…
So here's how my day was supposed to go.
Jenni Walters was thirty-three years old, and she was awake at four thirty in the morning because of a plant.
You ever walk into a big empty building and think, huh, this place is a stage?
The Clover Voyage, Vermilion Works, Laurel Stanza, Garnet Sonnet
Raw and blunt stories, from quick reads to long series.
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Most raw and blunt stories take 14 to 23 minutes, and the average is 19. Sort by shortest to start small, or follow a series to get each part as it lands.