Smoke and Salt
The call came down at eleven at night, and it was not even my problem.
Restaurant stories, from quick reads to long series. Most restaurant stories here sit in interracial love and erotic horror. Reads run 14 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Tawny Grammar, The Fern Poet and Spark of Stone. Readers usually start with “keys to the walk-in” and “The Button Tin”. 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 call came down at eleven at night, and it was not even my problem.
Okay, so before anything else, you should know I was twenty-nine last October, and my wife Zahra was twenty-six, and we had been married…
Two years.
Lynn Simms had been head of security at Pease's for nine years, and in that time she had learned that most of the job was waiting.
I could say I showed up to that diner feeling cool and collected, but that would be a lie, and honestly the whole night was built on me…
Luna was forty-three years old and had managed The Gilded Spoon for nine years, and in all that time she had never once thought about the…
I watched Andre laugh at something the waitress said and I tried to remember the last time that laugh had actually done anything to me.
Restaurant stories, from quick reads to long series.
Some stories are free to read in full, with no account. The rest open with a free preview; members read everything.
Most restaurant stories take 14 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.