The Tuesday Arrangement
Three months ago I was a man with a five-year plan.
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21 22 Selling Shadows
I turned fifty-five on a Tuesday and nobody sent flowers.
23 Voir Dire Redux
*This story came from watching how a shared experience, like jury duty, can turn two strangers into allies before they ever touch.
24 The Theremin Repair
The trouble started with a locked door and a dead phone.
25 Salt and Lace
The ship lurches onto the salt at nine in the morning and nobody tells you how loud it is.
26 The Bell Ringer's Last Call
The ad said "night shift, rural location, must be comfortable with livestock proximity."
27 Locked In Lodge Heat
I reminded myself that thirty-three wasn't old, even though my reflection in the dark lodge window said otherwise.
28 After Hours Ink
My name is Darrell, I'm fifty-two years old, and on the night this happened I had been running my own shop for exactly six months, which…
29 The Aftermath of Form
Kathy was twenty-three, and she was learning that freedom mostly felt like a headache.
30 The Rusted Frame Rail
I got to the gillnet rack at ten in the morning, a cardboard box balanced on one hip and the wind coming off the mountains hard enough to…
31 Pie and Prejudice
I moved to Lark's Hollow in the spring of the year I turned forty-two, which is the kind of sentence I would have hated saying out loud…
32 The Whisk at the Yard Sale
A month.
33 Exposed in the Factory
You ever walk into a big empty building and think, huh, this place is a stage?
34 Residual Heat
The fake wedding cake had gotten everywhere.
35 The Last First
The gallery opening was one of those free wine and cheese things my coworker Pat dragged me to because he hated going alone.
36 The Resin Morning
*This one came from wanting to write something quiet, a story about wanting again after a long silence, set in a town where magic smells…
37 Barely Surface
Okay, so here's how I'm going to tell this, because telling it out loud in order makes my face hot and I have to work in twenty minutes.
38 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…
39 The Wrong Pitch
I signed up for the retreat on a Tuesday night in March, half a bottle of wine in, and I remember thinking it would either fix my life or…
40 The Auction Lot
I'm Maya, thirty-one, and I've spent most of my adult life being the kind of person who plans things.
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