The Closed Shutter
The taxi dropped Cody Lopez at the end of the red dirt road because the driver refused to go any further.
Stories in Erotic Couplings tagged exes, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 16 to 20 minutes. Writers to know: The Rowan Anchor, Kestrel Ballad and Midnight Stage. Readers usually start with “The Closed Shutter” and “Pumpkin Hollow Reunion”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The taxi dropped Cody Lopez at the end of the red dirt road because the driver refused to go any further.
The call came in on a Tuesday, which is how these things always seem to happen, on the worst possible day.
I want to tell you this story right, so let me start at the beginning, which for me is standing in a hotel parking lot at eleven at night…
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.
The bus dropped me at the end of the gravel road at four in the afternoon.
My name is Hilary Fox, I'm twenty-nine years old, and I was pacing the promenade deck of a ferry as if I'd lost my keys, my wallet, and my…
The email said the hackathon was at a piano restoration shop, which I figured was some kind of joke until I looked it up.
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…
Dinah here, 35 years old, twelve years at this paper and lately feeling every one of them.
The vow renewal was being held in a parking lot, which was the kind of thing Levi Hansen should have expected from his cousin Garret.
I hadn't set foot on the Atlantic Star in three years, and the bastard still recognized me.
I never figured I'd end up holding my ex-wife's hand again.