The Cob Festival Whisper
Zara here, thirty-nine, and I'll get Aaron's age in there soon so nobody has to do math later.
Stories in Erotic Couplings tagged outdoors, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 15 to 22 minutes. Writers to know: Narrative of River, Poet of Roan and The Clover Voyage. Readers usually start with “The Cob Festival Whisper” and “Smoke Signal”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Zara here, thirty-nine, and I'll get Aaron's age in there soon so nobody has to do math later.
The match went off on the first try, which I'd been counting on, because a man who can't light a fire with one strike in front of Nia…
The call came in on a Tuesday, which is how these things always seem to happen, on the worst possible day.
It was my twenty-ninth birthday, and I woke up in a tent at a campground three hours from home, which was exactly where I wanted to be.
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.
I turned thirty-seven in March and somewhere around the second glass of birthday wine I decided I needed proof I still had adventure in me.
Wallace pulled into Cedar Bend at four in the afternoon on a Friday in mid-October.
*I wanted to write a story where two people who are basically flirting through insults finally collide in a hot, dusty place.