Bellows and Leather
The forge in Easky is dim when I pull up.
Stories in Erotic Couplings tagged worn clothing and scent, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 14 to 21 minutes. Writers to know: Narrative of River, Velvet Lodge and Ochre Draft. Readers usually start with “Bellows and Leather” and “Oat Wreath Arrangement”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The forge in Easky is dim when I pull up.
I got to the ropeway waiting hall a little before five, carrying a timber receipt in one pocket and a memo pad in the other.
Serena Cannon was forty-one years old, she sold medical devices for a living, and she had promised herself she would get through this…
The gravel lot at Braidhaugh Farm hasn't changed in two years, which is more than I can say for my mood.
The roommate bailed on a Tuesday.
The blackout hit at 6:47 on a Thursday evening in October, and I remember the time because I had been watching the drum thermometer like a…
My editor called it a "career-lite assignment," which is her way of saying it won't get you a raise but it might get you out of the house.
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…
I was twenty-eight the summer I drove Ian out to his uncle's farm, and I could claim I was doing it out of pure friendship, but that would…
I met Vera at twenty-one, in a community ceramics class held in a church basement that smelled like wet clay and old coffee.
*This one came from a weird day where I kept thinking about courthouse hallways after hours, all that institutional authority, just…
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.
Marian put the baby monitor on the table by her bunk and listened for a full minute.