Taste of the Bitter Herb
"You want me to hold your life in my hands?"
Stories in Erotic Couplings tagged stockings and lingerie, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 15 to 20 minutes. Writers to know: Velvet Lodge, Vermilion Avenue and Vermilion Crossing. Readers usually start with “Taste of the Bitter Herb” and “Last Hackathon”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
"You want me to hold your life in my hands?"
I'm fifty-two years old and I run the dispatch floor at Marlow Taxi.
I came home early on a Thursday.
The ladder up the crane leg was the worst thing I had climbed in years, and I climb things for a living, sort of.
Wallace pulled into Cedar Bend at four in the afternoon on a Friday in mid-October.
I was forty-four years old and wiping down pool filters on a Friday night.
*This one's for the people who've spent a night with a stranger and never regretted it, even when the morning hurt.
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