The Pasta Cutter
I still think about that doorbell.
Stories in Erotic Couplings tagged breathless and eager, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 14 to 19 minutes. Writers to know: Coral Atlas, Copper Window and The Raven Lodge. Readers usually start with “The Pasta Cutter” and “The Cob Festival Whisper”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
I still think about that doorbell.
Zara here, thirty-nine, and I'll get Aaron's age in there soon so nobody has to do math later.
The text I sent at 9:40 on a Tuesday night was, in hindsight, pretty forward.
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…
I'm fifty-two years old and I run the dispatch floor at Marlow Taxi.
The town I live in has four hundred people and one stop sign, and both of them have been there longer than me.
Alexis had learned, in the three years since Diane died, that silence was not empty.
I've been up here on Spitsbergen for two years now, and I can tell you the airport in Longyearbyen is not built for drama.
Mel Rasmussen was thirty-three years old, and she had been sweating through coveralls at county fairs long enough to estimate how many…
I was sitting at a café on the cliff road in Vila do Mar, drinking a lager I didn't really like and thinking about my marriage in the…
My name is Tom Walters, I'm 52 years old, and I drive a shuttle van in Marietta, the little desert town next to Fort Baxter.
The bus dropped me at the end of the gravel road at four in the afternoon.
Ingrid Jorgenson was twenty-three years old and her back hurt.
The wave hit the ferry off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, and Maya Chen, thirty-four years old and a graphic designer from Boston who had…
*This one's for anyone who's ever crossed an ocean just to touch someone's hand.
The last visitor left at 4:45 and I thanked the docent more warmly than I meant it.
The rain came down like it had a grudge.
You missed a spot, Rudy.
My name is Lance Oakley, I've been a runner most of my life, and I have spent most of my adult life being the sensible one.