Prune Day Eve
Maureen Skinner came over the rise at dusk with her rucksack on one shoulder and her pruning shears poking out of the top pocket.
Ski town stories
Ski town stories, from quick reads to long series. Most ski town stories here sit in gay male and erotic couplings. Reads run 13 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Field of Orchard, The Copper Chronicle and Lodge of Sundown. Readers usually start with “The Watcher at Ridgeview Lodge” and “The Currant Mite Letter”. 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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21 22 Reunion at Red Ridge
I'm twenty-nine years old and I got dumped by text message.
23 The Lift Operator's Lesson
The week after Thanksgiving at Snowdrift Lodge is what we call the dead zone.
24 The Slopeside Shag
I've been planning weddings for fourteen years, and if there's one thing it's made me an expert at, it's spotting couples who are going to…
25 Maple Drip
Claire had been a flight attendant for twenty-two years, and in all that time she had never once gotten on the wrong shuttle, until the…
26 Spark and Scale
Farah sits at the corner table by the window of the lakefront bar and counts what she has left.
27 The Boss's Room
Ezra Chalmers was thirty-two years old, and he had never once done anything interesting on a Thursday...
28 The Merger Melt
The email came on a Tuesday and it had the word "synergy" in the first sentence, which is never a good sign.
29 Snow Melt
Jake here.
30 Bridge to You
Okay so let me start with the basics.
31 Last Call Confessions
The Crimson Oak sits in the lobby of the Wexford Hotel, which is one of those old hotels that costs too much and smells like money trying…
32 The Longest Almost
Ada moved into the apartment above the workshop in September, twenty-eight years old and tired of cities.
33 Dead Air at Dead Man's Lodge
The GPS gives up at the fork in the access road.
34 Rooftop Exchange
I am forty-six years old and I had somehow reached the middle of a writing retreat in the Swiss Alps without anyone learning my name.
35 Spring Tension
I got to the Boronia Spring at four in the afternoon, which is the worst possible time to be anywhere in the Queensland outback.
36 The Empty Birdcage
I was twenty-eight and three months into my job at the Alpine Archive Lodge, which meant I had finally gotten good at pretending I knew…
37 The Plumber and the Boss
I bought the Snowbird Inn at thirty-eight, a year before my divorce finished eating itself, and I have been apologizing to it ever since.
38 Boots on the Line
The match happened on a Tuesday, I remember that much because Tuesdays are the night I teach beginners and the app never got any action…
39 Glacier Glass
I was wiping down the bar when I saw her through the window.
40 Melted Snow
*This one came from thinking about how we stop exploring our partners after years together.
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10 to 30 minutesBest ski town stories of 2026Writers known for it
Field of Orchard, The Copper Chronicle, Lodge of Sundown, Cobalt Ticket
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