Kept Key
Lyssa had the needle halfway through the last petal of a rose when her phone buzzed on the tray beside her.
Stories in Interracial Love tagged dark and intense, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 15 to 25 minutes. Writers to know: Dusk Fable, Fable of Delta and The Cobalt Word. Readers usually start with “Kept Key” and “Tide Pool Tryst”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Lyssa had the needle halfway through the last petal of a rose when her phone buzzed on the tray beside her.
Mila was twenty-seven years old and had been guiding rivers and coastal trails out of Bar Harbor for five summers, and in all that time…
Roberta Partridge had sold flowers on the same stretch of roadside for twenty years.
Pam had counted the petals of a white rose a hundred and twelve times in her life, and she could not tell you why, only that her fingers…
Laura had never stolen anything in her life, unless you counted the keys currently burning a hole in her jacket pocket.
The bus dropped me off on the main street of town at four in the afternoon on a Tuesday, and I stood there with my two bags and my laptop…
Wade Caulfield took the last exit before the town of Tropic and drove up the switchbacks with the windows down.
Reggie Oakley counted his garnish knives twice before he believed they were all there, and then he wiped down the walnut bar top for the…
Lorraine parked her sedan in the gravel lot behind the mill at 11:40.
The speaker above Gate 14 crackled again and said something in Korean, and I sat there in a vinyl chair with my hoodie bunched under my…