The Auctioneer and the Engineer
So here's how my night started, and I'll tell it straight because there's no point lying to you people.
Warm and nostalgic stories
Warm and nostalgic stories, from quick reads to long series. Most warm and nostalgic stories here sit in exhibitionist & voyeur and romance. Reads run 14 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Midnight Stage, Pearl Gallery and The Ochre Novel. Readers usually start with “Comet Light Over Us” and “The Locksmith's Van”. 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 Last Call at the Rusty Anchor
My name is Claude, I'm sixty-four years old, and I've been running the pharmacy on Harbor Street for eleven years now.
23 The Gondola Rules
The rules were typed up on a napkin.
24 The Oil Press Proposal
The absurd part wasn't that I was trapped overnight in a disused oil palm press at the edge of Kanas Lake.
25 Map and Measure
I've been going to storage auctions for six years now.
26 The Tides We Keep
I unlocked the control room door at six forty-five.
27 Sourdough Surprise
The ferry from Helsinki to the lakeside town takes four hours, and I spend all of it staring at the water and thinking about nothing.
28 Lighthouse After Hours
I landed in Keflavik on a Tuesday in November, fifty-five years old and wearing the same insulated jacket I wear for feeding cattle back…
29 The Ferry Agreement
We boarded the Sunrise Voyager at four in the afternoon, both of us sunburned already from the taxi line, and I want to note up front that…
30 The Engine Room Lease
Bree Parsons got to the dock fifteen minutes early, which was unusual for her, but the bus had been empty and the evening was one of those…
31 The Pickle Works Uniform
My name is Kerri Malone, I am sixty-two years old, and I have worked at the Brine Hollow pickle processing plant for thirty-six years.
32 The Last Bell
The parking lot of St.
33 The Glass Armonica Blank
Liv Bowman pulled her pickup into the gravel lot behind the annex at 6:40, twenty minutes early like always.
34 The Organ Builder's Debt
I'm Maria Barnett, forty-four years old, and I run a canoe livery on the Biesbosch with my dad.
35 The Quiet Request
So here's how the weirdest and best Wednesday of my life got started, and I want you to know up front that I am fifty-two years old, my…
36 The Morning Shift at Silva's
The knock comes at 5:45 in the morning and I know it's him before I open the door.
37 Slow Hands, Late Nights
I want to start by saying that I'm twenty-four years old, I edit other people's manuscripts for a living, and I have been having sex with…
38 The Sommelier's Dress
Vic and I had been together two years when the dry spell hit, and it didn't hit like a storm.
39 Practice Run
Sonia figured out pretty quick that holding the sign for "grace" was harder than holding a paddle.
40 Pumpkin Hollow Reunion
The call came in on a Tuesday, which is how these things always seem to happen, on the worst possible day.
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10 to 30 minutesBest warm and nostalgic stories of 2026Writers known for it
Midnight Stage, Pearl Gallery, The Ochre Novel, Cypress Watch
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