12 min read
The Apology Letter
She has drafted it for eleven years. This is the version she is going to send, and it is four sentences long.
Moods: Heartfelt Twist ending
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Short fiction, sorted by how long you have and what you feel like.
13 stories
13 min read
The Man Who Answered the Door
Four hundred doors on his enumeration district. One of them is answered by a man who is not on any list.
Moods: Heartfelt Twist ending
13 min read
Dead Reckoning
Before satellites, you found your position with a clock, a compass and arithmetic. He is teaching it to eleven cadets who will never need it.
Moods: Twist ending
11 min read
The Girl Who Fixed the Clock
The town clock stopped in 1998. Everyone has an opinion about it. One person has a screwdriver.
Moods: Cozy Twist ending
12 min read
My Father’s Handwriting
She has authenticated four hundred documents in her career. The one on her desk is in her father's hand, and her father could not write.
Moods: Twist ending
13 min read
Lost Property
Eleven thousand items a year come through the office. One has been on the shelf since 1998.
Moods: Heartfelt Twist ending
12 min read
Nobody’s Fool
The card school at the Anchor has run every Friday since 1991. Everyone agrees that Alf cheats. Nobody can catch him.
Moods: Funny Twist ending
17 min read
What the Ice Gave Back
The glacier has been retreating for ninety years. This summer it gave up a rucksack, a boot, and a problem.
Moods: Dark Twist ending
15 min read
Three Winters in the Archive
She was hired to catalogue eleven thousand photographs. By the second winter she had noticed the same woman in forty of them.
Moods: Twist ending
11 min read
Static
He has been broadcasting into empty air on the same frequency every night for six years. Last Tuesday, something answered.
Moods: Dark Twist ending
11 min read
The Man Who Timed the Trains
For nineteen years he stood on the same platform with a stopwatch. The railway assumed he was a hobbyist. He was not.
Moods: Dark Twist ending
11 min read
What the River Kept
They drained the reservoir for the first time in sixty years. The village came back up. So did everything in it.
Moods: Heartfelt Twist ending
11 min read
The Substitute
Year 9 had been through four supply teachers in a term. The fifth one did not seem worried.
Moods: Dark Twist ending
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