The Pasta Cutter
I still think about that doorbell.
Stories in Erotic Couplings tagged feet, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 17 to 21 minutes. Writers to know: Narrative of River, The Rowan Anchor and Journal of Laurel. 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.
Brianna had been in the grocery store for twenty minutes and she still hadn't picked a cereal.
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The forecast had said light snow, flurries tapering by evening, which is the kind of thing a forecast says right up until it lies to you.
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…
The email said the hackathon was at a piano restoration shop, which I figured was some kind of joke until I looked it up.
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Grady stands at the edge of the practice field and watches a battered old robot spin in circles, dragging its claw behind it like a broken…
Carlos Rhodes was forty-four years old and he drank Old Crow because it was cheap and because his father drank it and because at some…
Joshua woke up at six-something with a stiff neck and a woman's cold foot pressed against his calf.