Voicemails and Vinyl
My name is Tulani Brighton, I am twenty-eight years old, and I am speaking into my phone in a lodge hall kitchen in upstate New Lansing.
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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My name is Tulani Brighton, I am twenty-eight years old, and I am speaking into my phone in a lodge hall kitchen in upstate New Lansing.
Theresa Gonzales pulled into the campground lot at four in the afternoon, fifty-two years old and single for the first time since she was…
Elle Montgomery was fifty-four years old and had spent thirty of those years turning data into arguments she usually won.
Meredith Gilbert is thirty-four years old, a quarter troll on her mother's side, and she has been on her feet for nine hours.
I still don't know exactly why I said yes to this.
I was sorting parcel labels at the distribution center on a Tuesday when Katya dropped the whole thing on me like a sack of wet newspapers.
Craig Atkinson had covered forty-one bridal expos.
The defense went fine.
The motel room smelled like salt and cedar, which made no sense, because motels never smell like anything but carpet cleaner and old…
The warehouse smelled like nutmeg and something darker, maybe cardamom, maybe the dust of a thousand sealed drums that had been sitting on…
I want to start with the memo, because the memo is the whole reason for what happened on the nineteenth floor of Blaine & Rodgers on a…
On a Tuesday in November his phone buzzed with the news, and the whole Delta terminal at O'Hare went quiet in that specific way airports…
The neon sign outside the bar buzzed like it always did.
The door to the spice library was heavier than it looked, old oak with a brass handle worn smooth by a century of hands, and I had to put…
Erin was down to her bra and a pair of old khaki shorts, sweating through the August humidity, shoving golf shirts into a box that was…
I want to start this by saying I'm twenty-nine years old and I should know better.
My name is Darrell Spock and I'm twenty-nine years old.
You would not believe my day job.
Karina Webb finished the last roast at 9:40 on a Thursday night and turned off the drum.
Sierra watched the scrub roll past the window and thought about turning twenty-nine in three weeks.
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