The Rivet and the Rivet
My divorce went through in March, and by June I was still eating dinner standing at the counter like someone who hadn't figured out his…
School staff stories
School staff stories, from quick reads to long series. Most school staff stories here sit in anal and group sex. Reads run 15 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Garnet Sonnet, The Brass Thread and The Midnight Quota. Readers usually start with “The Rivet and the Rivet” and “The Seahorse Signal”. 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 The Seahorse Signal
The first note showed up under the seahorse dome in the exhibit hall, which was already strange, because the seahorse dome sits inside a…
03 Ember & Ash
The last job I lost was at a bistro in the city.
04 Gloves Off, Hearts On
My week had been the same six days in a row, which was driving pills and inhalers and the occasional oxygen tank around town in a white…
05 The Captain's Favor
I'm Astrid.
06 Line Work
I woke up alone in my own bed at seven in the morning, staring at the ceiling like it had answers, and the first thing I thought was: that…
07 The Guard's Debt
Theresa Mullen, thirty-four years old and tired down to her bones, locked the last door on the south hall and stood there for a second…
08 Dressed for Her Pleasure
*This one came from a moody image of an empty school gym at night and the idea of finding intimacy in the most unexpected places.
09 The Hookup That Didn't
*This one came from the idea of two people meeting for a hookup and finding their lives intersect in ways neither planned.
10 The Night Shift Tutor
Rufus Smyth, thirty-four years old and recently signed to a two-week security contract, pulled up to St.
11 The Whisk at the Yard Sale
A month.
12 Fire Room
I was down in the engine room at three in the morning, mostly because there was nowhere else on the ship to be, and I was turning a wrench…
13 The Chef's After-Hours Arrangement
It's eleven forty on a Thursday and I'm alone in the demo kitchen at the academy, breaking down my station for the second time because I…
14 The Evening Trainer
So here's how I started my new job: arguing with a man I hadn't seen in twenty years, over a door.
15 The Last Bell
The parking lot of St.
16 The Syllabus
My sixty-third birthday is in November, and I have decided to treat it the way I used to treat manuscript deadlines, with a mixture of…
17 Backstroke at Midnight
The greenhouse smelled like wet soil and orchids.
18 The Lobster Pot
The suitcase comes around the carousel for the third time and I just stand there watching it.
19 The Professor's Dare
I stood in the dark hallway of the office building, my hands in my pockets, wondering if this was the strangest birthday I'd ever planned.
20 Practice Room Confessions
The keycard Cherise lent me feels warm in my hand, like it knows it shouldn't be here either.
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10 to 30 minutesBest school staff stories of 2026Writers known for it
Garnet Sonnet, The Brass Thread, The Midnight Quota, Fern Note
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