The Magician's Confession
Wren says she is forty-four years old, out loud, on the drive up, because Tobias has asked her twice to stop calling herself "an aging…
Stories in Erotic Horror tagged breathless and eager, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 22 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Edition of Stone, The Topaz Garden and Summit Canvas. Readers usually start with “The Magician's Confession” and “Off-Season Devotion”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Wren says she is forty-four years old, out loud, on the drive up, because Tobias has asked her twice to stop calling herself "an aging…
The apartment had been quiet for eleven days.
Raine was thirty-four years old and she spent her Friday nights folding other people's laundry.
Tabby Estrada was thirty-three years old, and her life had become a list.
I wake up on the floor of my own apartment with my cheek stuck to a flattened moving box and my mouth tasting like three dollar wine and…
Phoebe Martins was forty-two years old and she had never once regretted the way she'd built her life.
The security guard at the gate barely looked up when I signed in, which I guess made sense at 2 a.m., since nobody in their right mind…
Tess had lived in Ludlow for exactly ten days, and she was still counting the days like a prisoner marks a wall.
Leona was thirty-five and she had been a paramedic for eight years, and she knew exactly how long a body takes to give up because she had…
Victoria stood on the back porch of her new farmhouse with a glass of prosecco going warm in her hand, and she could not stop smiling.
Kerry Gibbons had a problem, and the problem was that she couldn't stop performing.
*This one came from a late-night thought about how the scariest places are the ones we think we know.