Last Hackathon
I'm fifty-two years old and I run the dispatch floor at Marlow Taxi.
Stories in Erotic Couplings tagged spouses, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 15 to 20 minutes. Writers to know: The Opal Turn, The Delta Garden and Vermilion Avenue. Readers usually start with “Last Hackathon” and “The Backyard Promise”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
I'm fifty-two years old and I run the dispatch floor at Marlow Taxi.
I came home early on a Thursday.
The night shift at a desert motel teaches a man two things.
The barge had been a working freight boat forty years ago, and whoever converted it never met a piece of decoration they didn't like.
Charles didn't hear me come into the kitchen, because Charles never heard anything anymore when he was out there sanding at midnight, and…
The pool after hours is a strange kind of quiet.
The town I live in has four hundred people and one stop sign, and both of them have been there longer than me.
The cab dropped me at the corner of Delancey and 9th at 9:40 on a Wednesday night.
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.
Cara rolled the rig into the Pelican Beach depot at half past six on a Friday night in July, and she knew before she even killed the…
The garage needed cleaning the way most things in my life needed cleaning, it didn't, really, but Deb had put it on the calendar and I had…
My name is Mallory Bronson, I am sixty-two years old, and last Tuesday I threw up in a mop bucket at work.
I was sitting at a café on the cliff road in Vila do Mar, drinking a lager I didn't really like and thinking about my marriage in the…
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.
*This one's for anyone who's ever felt like the quiet partner in a loud relationship.
My name is Lance Oakley, I've been a runner most of my life, and I have spent most of my adult life being the sensible one.