20 Minutes Stories Home
Short stories for busy readers — stories you can finish in one sitting.
🏠 Welcome to 20 Minute Stories
Each post here is a doorway, and you can choose to enter and explore. That means clicking links, following threads, and exploring beyond the page. The reward? Fresh stories, unexpected turns, and a reading experience that asks you to be curious, not passive.
The stories you'll find inside, I hope, will keep you entertained for twenty minutes. Follow the links to begin your adventure.
Organization
This is the central hub for everything I’m publishing here—a place for serialized memoirs, featured writers, and my own attempts at storytelling.
📖 90 Miles to Richmond
A serialized audio memoir with a new chapter each Thursday. 90 Miles to Richmond tells the extraordinary true story of a young woman who risked everything to save her husband—a wounded Union soldier trapped behind enemy-held territory.
Only 25 years old, with a family farm to protect and children to raise, she faced an unthinkable choice: wait and pray, or set out across enemy lines on a desperate mission that might cost her her life.
Table of Contents
Author’s Introduction (3 minutes)
Chapter 1: Holding on in a Dying Land (9 minutes)
Chapter 2: Pappy’s Story (5 minutes)
Chapter 3 & 4: Timber Sale & The Road Home (16 minutes)
Chapter 5: Furlough (15-minutes)
Chapter 6: Ma (19-minutes)
Chapter 7: Visitors
Chapters 9 & 10: Battle & Company D
Chapters 11 & 12: Minnie Ball & The Letter
Chapters 13 & 14: The Messenger & Levi
Chapters 15 & 16: Homecoming and Austerlitz
(More chapters added as they’re published)
✒️ Sharp Edge Writers
A showcase series featuring stories from writers who I have read and whose work I highly recommend.
Featured Writers
2. Loren Kantor
3. William “Dollar Bill” Mersey
Featured Stories
Help! I Grew up in Broad Ripple
Catholic, Ten Acres, Alligators, and Silence:
One Disastrous Prom Night: a Twice-told Tale
How are we Doing?
If you made it this far, tell me…
🔁 Loop Back
At the end of each chapter or feature, you’ll find a link back to this page.
That way, you can always find your way back home.