The Pawnshop Line Switch
The rain was the kind that doesn't fall so much as hang there, and I'd been standing under the awning next to the diner for ten minutes.
Service provider and client stories, from quick reads to long series. Most service provider and client stories here sit in exhibitionist & voyeur and erotic couplings. Reads run 14 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Switch of Juniper, Street of Jasper and Quartz Pen. Readers usually start with “Boots and a Tent” and “Float and Yield”. 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 rain was the kind that doesn't fall so much as hang there, and I'd been standing under the awning next to the diner for ten minutes.
I lost my wallet at the church fair on a Saturday in June, which is the kind of thing that happens when you eat a funnel cake standing up…
Nobody tells you the worst part of getting out is the quiet.
Jen had been in the city for exactly three weeks when she climbed the last flight of stairs with two vinyl records under her arm and a bag…
I want to start by saying I'm twenty-four years old, I've been married for a year and a half, and I work as a zookeeper, which is a fancy…
Kyle Webb pulls his truck up to the loading dock at four in the afternoon, and the whole island feels like a kettle somebody forgot to…
I'm Sherrie, I'm twenty-two, and I moved up to the Mao Mountains seven months ago with one duffel bag and a job tightening the caps on…
Mila was twenty-seven years old and had been guiding rivers and coastal trails out of Bar Harbor for five summers, and in all that time…
I quit my job on a Tuesday and the plan was to have one last party in the storage unit that Friday.
Rina pulled into the parking lot of the Grand Summit Hotel at eight in the morning, sat in her rental car for a minute, and gave herself…
Floyd rolled his truck through the rusted gate of the Bar None Ranch at eight in the morning, gravel popping under the tires, and there…
Kristina pulled her Honda onto the gravel lot at eleven sharp.
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…
The tent smelled like pine oil and someone else's vanilla candle, and Delia had long since stopped noticing either.
*This one came from the idea of putting a lifeguard on dry land and watching the water metaphors dry up.
The pie auction happens every February at the Shady Rest Motel, out at the edge of the sheep country, and I have been going to it for the…
I took the tree lot job because my life had gotten so predictable I could schedule my boredom.
I'm fifty-eight years old and I never thought I'd be catering a movie set, that's for sure.
My girlfriend left me six months ago.
I teach yoga for a living, which means I spend my days telling other people to breathe through the hard parts.
Switch of Juniper, Street of Jasper, Quartz Pen, The Echo Narrative
Service provider and client 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 service provider and client 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.