The Corkscrew Lesson
I turned forty-three on a Tuesday, which is nobody's favorite birthday, let's be honest.
Stories in First Time tagged spouses, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 19 to 25 minutes. Writers to know: Midnight Gallery, Narrative of River and Garnet Switch. Readers usually start with “The Corkscrew Lesson” and “Flipping the House, Igniting Us”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
I turned forty-three on a Tuesday, which is nobody's favorite birthday, let's be honest.
I'm Andreas Conti, sixty-four years old, retired firefighter, thirty-five years married to the same woman.
The band was playing something slow and the fairy lights were doing their thing over the fountain, and I stood there with a glass of…
Bonnie Kessler was twenty-three years old and she had never given a blowjob.
The gig ran long.
*This one's about what happens when two people who know every inch of each other decide to act like strangers.
The realtor left the key in the lockbox and told us to take our time, which was either kindness or a sales tactic, and with realtors it is…
I unlocked the break room door at eleven like always, and there was Drake, sitting on the worn couch with two coffees from the machine…