When Grace Took the Lead
I'm driving my forklift through the greenhouse aisles like I do every Tuesday night, thirty-six years old and ten years married, moving…
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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I'm driving my forklift through the greenhouse aisles like I do every Tuesday night, thirty-six years old and ten years married, moving…
Harvey Bowen was thirty-four years old, and he had been losing to Calvin Fitzgerald for sixteen years.
My name is Iris Leland, I'm twenty-nine years old, and I have been standing in a convent garden since seven in the morning waiting for a…
I post poems on a forum nobody's heard of.
I never wanted to go to a folk festival, not really, but the town was three hours from anywhere and Diane had been talking about it for a…
The ration ledgers had their own smell, Kerry thought, and after eight years of working the registration tent she had stopped noticing it.
The dryer had been dead for days, apparently.
Saturday mornings at the Oakridge farmers market always start the same way for me.
The house was too quiet.
I woke up face down in a pillow that didn't smell like mine, under a quilt I didn't own, with one leg hanging off the mattress like I'd…
The elevator on the fifth floor had been broken since Tuesday, which meant everybody else took the stairs, which meant I got to be the…
I woke up with a strange weight across my ribs and for a second I couldn't remember what year it was.
I got to the Baker place at ten in the morning, which was early even for me, but the bride's mother had insisted the house needed to be…
The suitcase comes around the carousel for the third time and I just stand there watching it.
The equinox crowd showed up at the mine shaft around four in the afternoon, the same as they did every March and September, and I was…
Charles didn't hear me come into the kitchen, because Charles never heard anything anymore when he was out there sanding at midnight, and…
The last pod slid out of Güzelyurt at 11:40, and I stood there watching it go like it was a boat leaving without me.
Right off, I wasn't stalking anybody.
The gallery smells like turpentine and white paint, and Tiff walks the long floor alone at seven, tapping her pen against a clipboard she…
The slam happens every first Friday of the month, down in the parking garage under the Arts Center.
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.