Demolition of the Heart
I was fifty-two years old, divorced almost six months, and I was standing in the gravel driveway of a dead man's house with a clipboard I…
Dark and intense erotic couplings stories
Stories in Erotic Couplings tagged dark and intense, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 17 to 21 minutes. Writers to know: The Rowan Anchor, The Smoke Record and The Raven Lodge. Readers usually start with “Demolition of the Heart” and “The Thursday Woman”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Dark and intense erotic couplings stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Thursday Woman
The night shift at a desert motel teaches a man two things.
03 The Foam Knot
The divorce papers came through two weeks ago on a Tuesday, and I was on a train to Gafuriysky District by Friday.
04 Wrong Bar Right Time
I walked into The Rusty Spur at seven forty on a Friday night and I knew before the door closed behind me that something was off.
05 Hard Landing
The cab dropped me at the corner of Delancey and 9th at 9:40 on a Wednesday night.
06 The Puppet's Arm
I moved to town in March, and for the first couple weeks I mostly unpacked and found the grocery store.
07 The Last Crossing
Kurt had been spinning records on the MV Celestial Dawn for eleven years, and if he never heard another drunk accountant request "Sweet…
08 Wrong Deck
I boarded the Starboard Queen on a Tuesday afternoon with a duffel bag and a printout of my reservation, because I don't trust phones on…
09 The Climbing Wall
Okay, so here's how it started.
10 Fichu at Dusk
Craig here.
11 Eclipse over Elara
I woke up at dawn in a bed that wasn't mine, with my shirt missing and one sock on and one sock off, and for a good thirty seconds I had…
12 The Last Hour
The apartment I rent has good light and bad acoustics, and by that I mean the walls don't do anything to help you.
13 The Kiln Room
I met Vera at twenty-one, in a community ceramics class held in a church basement that smelled like wet clay and old coffee.
14 The Bitter Brew of Second Chances
Alicia was forty minutes from closing when the door stuck in its usual way and then swung in, letting a slab of humid August air into The…
15 Beneath the Seams
I carried the steel table down the stairs one careful step at a time, because the stairs in that basement were narrow as a coffin and had…
16 Checkmate Offer
Isla Lund was thirty-four years old, and she had lied on the rental application twice.
17 The Captain's Cabin
I hadn't set foot on the Atlantic Star in three years, and the bastard still recognized me.
18 The Key to 2B
The paint smell is the first thing anybody notices about unit 2B, and I always apologize for it, which is a weird thing for a realtor to…