The Pickling Hour
Macy tried the key a third time, mostly because there was nothing left to do, and the lock did the same thing it had done twice already…
Stories in Erotic Horror tagged food play, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 23 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: Shadow Lodge, Journal of Meadow and Quiet Post. Readers usually start with “The Pickling Hour” and “The Midnight Interview”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Macy tried the key a third time, mostly because there was nothing left to do, and the lock did the same thing it had done twice already…
The sign on the building said MIDNIGHT DISPATCH in letters that used to glow blue but now just glowed half blue.
Mackenzie was fifty-three years old and she had lived in a lot of bad apartments, but this one had walls made out of paper and spite, and…
Rhonda Brownlow was forty-three years old and she was gripping the seat of a rattly little charter plane like it had personally insulted…
I stopped feeling anything during sex around thirty-one, which is the kind of thing you only admit to yourself at four in the morning in a…
Denae stood in the middle of the cabin and wondered how her evening had gone so sideways.
The wind hit William Delaney the moment he opened the truck door, and it went straight through his jacket like it had a grudge.
Shanice Bryant was fifty-four years old and she had been driving long haul since she was twenty-one, which meant the cab of her Peterbilt…
Cass had been tuning pianos for twenty years, and in all that time she had never once had to fight a festival crowd to get to a client's…
I still remember the first week at the lodge, how quiet it was up there, quiet in a way that city people don't really understand until…