The Previous Tenant
The bed is too big for the room, and I love it anyway!
Stories in Erotic Couplings tagged matter-of-fact, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 13 to 19 minutes. Writers to know: Keeper of Ember, Phrase of Olive and Reed Chaser. Readers usually start with “The Previous Tenant” and “Monofilament”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The bed is too big for the room, and I love it anyway!
The place had been a turpentine still once, back when Diamante smelled like money instead of tourists.
I got to the ropeway waiting hall a little before five, carrying a timber receipt in one pocket and a memo pad in the other.
The taxi dropped Cody Lopez at the end of the red dirt road because the driver refused to go any further.
I'm thirty-two years old and I own a board game cafe in a small town on the Nova Scotia coast, and for the past two weeks I have been…
The roommate bailed on a Tuesday.
Brianna had been in the grocery store for twenty minutes and she still hadn't picked a cereal.
The gravel in the drive-in lot had gone soft with grass.
I do a lot of house calls on Sundays.
The diner across the street from the county records building does a meatloaf special on Thursdays.
"You can't park a boat in a snowplow depot," I say.
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 match happened on a Tuesday, I remember that much because Tuesdays are the night I teach beginners and the app never got any action…
I'm thirty-two years old and my big Friday night plans involve a folding chair, a beer, and a fire escape.
The call came on a Tuesday in March, right when I was scraping old varnish off a church mural in Bywater and thinking hard about quitting…
Dinah here, 35 years old, twelve years at this paper and lately feeling every one of them.
Skyler pushed through the door of The Back Room at 6:40 on a Tuesday, ten minutes early, because showing up late to a first meeting with a…