The Theremin Repair
The trouble started with a locked door and a dead phone.
Stories in Lesbian Sex tagged dry and wry, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 22 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: The Quiet Lantern, Indigo Highway and Reed Page. Readers usually start with “The Theremin Repair” and “Garage Sale Surprise”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The trouble started with a locked door and a dead phone.
My Saturday had been going exactly the way my Saturdays usually went, I had coffee on the back porch at eight, read half a journal article…
The storm came in faster than the forecast said it would.
*This one started with the idea of someone who wants to cause a specific kind of hurt and ends up accidentally wanting something real.
I was elbow deep in a Swiss bracket clock when the bell over the door rang.
I was standing in my kitchen at 11:15 on a Tuesday night, still in my work trousers and the gray hoodie with the fraying cuffs, staring at…
The sign-up sheet said ten days.
My name is Zelda Higgins, I'm twenty-three years old, and I've been a nurse at Mercy General for two years.