Too Many Drinks Later
Serena Cannon was forty-one years old, she sold medical devices for a living, and she had promised herself she would get through this…
Stories in Erotic Couplings tagged playful and teasing, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 17 to 20 minutes. Writers to know: Velvet Lodge, The Rain Turn and The Breeze Draft. Readers usually start with “Too Many Drinks Later” and “South Plane Blooms”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Serena Cannon was forty-one years old, she sold medical devices for a living, and she had promised herself she would get through this…
I closed the shop at six like I always did, which meant I swept the stems off the floor, flipped the sign, and stood in the doorway for a…
I was twenty-nine that September, and Derrick was thirty-one, and we had been dating for two years by the time the Hoptimist's Diner…
Yolanda's bus dropped her at the end of Paloma Bay's main street at four in the afternoon, and she stood there a minute with her duffel…
I drove three hours for a bowl of soup.
*This one came from a weird day where I kept thinking about courthouse hallways after hours, all that institutional authority, just…
The email said the hackathon was at a piano restoration shop, which I figured was some kind of joke until I looked it up.
Okay, so this is what I keep not saying out loud to anybody, because if I say it out loud it becomes real.
*Wrote this for anyone who's ever wanted a birthday that felt like a new beginning, not with a relationship but with a laugh and a dare.
My name is Muriel Strand, I'm twenty-nine years old, and I have never once said no to Bill Voss.
Let me tell you about the time I made my biggest mistake, and honestly my best one too.