10 min read
The Piano Tuner’s Ear
He has tuned this piano twice a year for twenty-six years. This is the first time the family has been in the room.
Moods: Heartfelt Twist ending
Heartfelt short stories
8 stories tagged heartfelt, each with its reading time so you can pick one that fits.
8 min read
Seven Minutes of Sun
After sixty-five days of darkness, the sun comes back over the ridge at 11:47. The whole town stops. Even the ones who say they won't.
Moods: Heartfelt
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
6 min read
Grandmother’s Recipe, Version Fourteen
Fourteen index cards, fifty years apart, one dish. What changes between them is not the recipe.
Moods: Cozy Heartfelt
8 min read
The Understudy
Two hundred and forty performances. She has never once gone on. Tonight is not going to be different, and she has made her peace with that.
Moods: Heartfelt
7 min read
The Bus That Waits
The 6:14 leaves at 6:14. Except on Thursdays, and except for one passenger, and nobody has ever asked why.
Moods: Cozy Heartfelt
14 min read
Low Tide
Every August, for eleven years, they met on the same stretch of sand. Neither of them ever suggested it.
Moods: Cozy Heartfelt
9 min read
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Last Winter
Forty-one years of keeping the light, and nobody had ever told him what to do on the last night.
Moods: Heartfelt