The Previous Tenant
The bed is too big for the room, and I love it anyway!
Stories in Erotic Couplings tagged strangers, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 17 to 21 minutes. Writers to know: Narrative of River, Keeper of Ember and The Rowan Anchor. Readers usually start with “The Previous Tenant” and “The Accordion Wake”. 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!
I'm Douglas Sanders, thirty-seven years old, and I plan events for a living.
The roommate bailed on a Tuesday.
I'm Russ, twenty-eight, and I run the gear library in the old railway tunnel at Karioi.
I moved to town in March, and for the first couple weeks I mostly unpacked and found the grocery store.
"You can't park a boat in a snowplow depot," I say.
The fifth time I turned the key, the engine did the same thing it had done the other four times.
*This one's for the people who've spent a night with a stranger and never regretted it, even when the morning hurt.
I drove three hours for a bowl of soup.
I realized I hadn't felt young in ten years on a Tuesday, of all days, standing in front of the microwave waiting for my leftover curry to…
The first day of a cruise is always the weirdest one.
*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.
Vern Baxter had a system.
The paint smell is the first thing anybody notices about unit 2B, and I always apologize for it, which is a weird thing for a realtor to…