The Birthday List
I was forty minutes into my weekly Friday night beer when Grady Jenkin came shuffling over with that look on his face.
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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I was forty minutes into my weekly Friday night beer when Grady Jenkin came shuffling over with that look on his face.
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…
My name is Karla Hammond, I am forty-four years old, and for the first time in eighteen years I have nobody to answer to on a Saturday…
Kurt had been spinning records on the MV Celestial Dawn for eleven years, and if he never heard another drunk accountant request "Sweet…
I'm Robyn, thirty-four, an instructor at a startup accelerator, and that matters later, I promise.
The dirt road up to the lodge ate my Corolla's suspension the whole way.
I am sitting in the back office of The Golden Note at eleven forty on a Wednesday night, and the man across the desk from me is looking at…
Olwen woke with the sun striping the bed in yellow bars and no spell left in her skin.
The drizzle started when the bus dropped me off.
I turned thirty-seven in March and somewhere around the second glass of birthday wine I decided I needed proof I still had adventure in me.
Piper Benton was forty-three years old and she was wiping the same glass for the second time, which was a habit she'd picked up in the bad…
The bus dropped me at the end of Fore Street and I stood there with two suitcases and a bad feeling about the weather.
The flyer said the language exchange met Thursdays at the Railway Museum.
Robby Kramer was thirty-four years old and had taught history at the community college for nine years, and in all that time he had learned…
I got to the Burrows & Son roastery at nine in the morning, three hours before the memorial was set to start, because flowers take time…
From: bsteiger@northlightgallery.ca To: landon.redding@merrickvillecanoe.ca Subject: Private canoe lessons?
The whole thing started because my wife bought new heels.
The conference in Boise had run long, and by the time I packed the truck on Friday afternoon I was past tired and into that hollow kind of…
I parked my sedan between a pickup with a gun rack and a dirt bike that had no business being leaned against a porch, and I sat there for…
Let me start by saying I'm twenty-eight years old and I have never lost a pie competition on purpose, which will matter later.
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.