The Embalmer's Watch
Olive here.
Stories in Lesbian Sex tagged playful and teasing, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 21 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: The Twilight Type, Room of Timber and Indigo Highway. Readers usually start with “The Embalmer's Watch” and “One Night at the Fair”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Olive here.
My name is Nikki Sutherland and I turned thirty-four this spring, which means I have now been a widow for three years, which is longer…
The letter had taken me four days to write and three envelopes to get right, which was ridiculous considering I had spent forty years…
The thing about Towner during leave season is that it empties out in a way that feels personal.
I have been a flight attendant for eleven years, and in all that time I have never once missed a flight, called in sick, or traded a shift…
I'm fifty-eight years old and I never thought I'd be catering a movie set, that's for sure.
Tilly stayed late at the warehouse three nights in a row that week, and by Thursday she was alone with sixty chafing dishes and a batch of…
The Bent Spine closes at nine on Tuesdays, and I got there at six because Christa wanted to leave early for a thing her wife had going.
*This one's for the slow burns that start with an argument and end with a grin.
*I wanted to write something for women in their sixties, because desire doesn't retire.
The letter came on a Thursday.
Gladys here, fifty-two, accountant, and if you had told me three years ago I'd be white-knuckling a rental Corolla through a snow squall…
The taxi dropped me at the wrong door.