One Final Wave
Mason was restocking wax bars behind the counter when the bus hissed to a stop outside, and there she was.
Real estate showing stories
Real estate showing stories, from quick reads to long series. Most real estate showing stories here sit in exhibitionist & voyeur and romance. Reads run 13 to 23 minutes. Writers to know: Narrative of Coral, River Quota and Iron Echo. Readers usually start with “One Final Wave” and “Latte, Lies, and Late-Night Lessons”. 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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01 02 Latte, Lies, and Late-Night Lessons
I wrote the email at 11:40 on a Tuesday night, sitting at my kitchen table in socks and an old flannel shirt, and I deleted it three times…
03 The Listing Party
Ian did most of his thinking while he chopped things, which was one reason he liked being a caterer.
04 Selling Shadows
I turned fifty-five on a Tuesday and nobody sent flowers.
05 Key Exchange
I parked the Mustang across the street and killed the engine.
06 Birdcage Open
Rosaline got there twenty minutes early, which was stupid, because now she had to stand around looking like she wasn't standing around…
07 Demolition of the Heart
I was fifty-two years old, divorced almost six months, and I was standing in the gravel driveway of a dead man's house with a clipboard I…
08 The Back Fence
The townhouse was cheap and I knew why the second I signed the lease.
09 The Gondola Rules
The rules were typed up on a napkin.
10 Exposed in the Factory
You ever walk into a big empty building and think, huh, this place is a stage?
11 The Archive Key
I got the spare key in the mail a week before Wally left.
12 The Locked Pantry
Joan Tomlinson was forty-four years old and she had been arranging the same tray of canapés for ten minutes without actually arranging…
13 Letters from the Crossing
The ferry terminal at Harrows Neck smelled like diesel and old coffee, and Sam Delilah had been sitting in the same molded plastic chair…
14 What the Walls Hold
The evenings were the worst part of it, and I want to be plain about that from the start, because people assume retirement is all golf and…
15 The Glassblower's Lesson
The bus dropped me off at the bottom of the hill and I nearly fell getting down the steps because I was so excited.
16 The Tandem Surprise
The diner across the street from the county records building does a meatloaf special on Thursdays.
17 The Wig Maker's Weekend
The ad said house-sitter wanted, one weekend, references required.
18 Pretending to Be His Boyfriend: The Open House That Changed Everything
The night Leroy's partner left, it was raining.
19 The Goat and the Grown-Up
*This story was born from a daydream about a loan officer meeting his match in a woman who's lived a little.
20 The Anniversary Choice
Forty years.
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