Patina of Want
Delilah Fairchild was fifty-five years old, and she had carried a double boiler across a volcano's doorstep before she had ever carried a…
Coral Atlas
Longtime reader from San Cipriano, Colombia, writing stories when the day job quiets down, in a voice that is literate with dry humor. Expect Erotic Couplings and Romance with grown-up characters (30s), specific places, and the confession. I read every comment even when I am slow to reply. Hope you find something here worth bookmarking. 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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Stories by Coral Atlas
The Last Demo
Isobel Wickham was twenty-four years old and had spent the last eighteen months of her life answering phones at a dental clinic, which is…
Static in the Signal
Alexis had learned, in the three years since Diane died, that silence was not empty.
What Mel Wants
Mel Rasmussen was thirty-three years old, and she had been sweating through coveralls at county fairs long enough to estimate how many…