Ghost Route Letters
The first letter arrived on a Tuesday, which I remember because Tuesdays are dead at the salon and I had time to stand at the window and…
Best Exes Stories of 2026
The most-read exes stories right now, in a short top ten and then picks by how you want to read. Exes stories, from quick reads to long series. Most exes stories here sit in romance and erotic couplings. Reads run 14 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Garnet Wanderer, Timber Route and The Sundown Works. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The top exes stories
01 02 The Slaughterhouse Wife
The gate was the same one he remembered, which was strange, because Derrick had spent seven years telling himself he remembered nothing…
03 Crossing the Strait
I leaned on the rail at the stern and watched Dover shrink behind us.
04 Second Chance Sunday
I woke up in a bed that wasn't mine with somebody's arm heavy across my ribs and sunlight coming through blinds I did not recognize, and I…
05 keys to the walk-in
I turned twenty-five on a Tuesday, and I closed the restaurant alone.
06 River Song, Late Takes
The barge sat low in the water at the mooring outside Villeneuve-sur-Seine, and Marshall Sanford stood on the plank ramp with a clipboard…
07 Caged Devotion
I got to Port Stephen on a Friday afternoon in June.
08 The Currant Mite Letter
The cracked bird feeder has been sitting on my porch rail for six months now and I still haven't thrown it away.
09 Late Night Laps
So here's how my Monday went.
10 Birdcage Open
Rosaline got there twenty minutes early, which was stupid, because now she had to stand around looking like she wasn't standing around…
Longer exes reads
The Birdcage Dare
I drove out to Hendricks Field on a Tuesday in July, the kind of heat that made the dashboard vents feel useless.
The Back Fence
The townhouse was cheap and I knew why the second I signed the lease.
The Morning After the End
Evangeline woke up to an arm across her ribs and a ceiling she didn't recognize.
The Guard's Debt
Theresa Mullen, thirty-four years old and tired down to her bones, locked the last door on the south hall and stood there for a second…
Tar and Tenderness
The tarworks smells like a bad decision that got left out in the sun, and that night it smelled worse than usual, because they'd fired up…