The Embalmer's Watch
Olive here.
Stories in Lesbian Sex tagged spouses, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 21 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Ledger of Brass, The Rust Table and Wren Crossing. Readers usually start with “The Embalmer's Watch” and “Barn Dance Slow”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Olive here.
Evelyn Mackey clocked out of the feed store at six fifteen on a Tuesday, and her whole body felt like a sack of chicken feed by the time…
The storm came in faster than the forecast said it would.
My name is Rachel Wright, I'm twenty-three, and I have been in a U-Haul for twelve hours.
Elaine had been a security guard for nineteen years, and she was forty-four now, and she could tell you the exact minute a wedding party…
My name is Jolene Greer, I'm 34 years old, and I've been mopping other people's sweat off of flooring for about four years now.
The letter came on a Thursday.
Akari Ortega was thirty-four years old and she was sulking about a granola bar she hadn't lost yet.
My name is Cassie Byrne, I'm thirty-five years old, and I'm standing in a storage annex that smells like dust and old paper, watching my…
Magda sleeps like she's on duty.
The gravel road hadn't changed.
I got to the station on a Thursday.
I was forty-three years old in January, staring at a window streaked with salt and rain, in a room that smelled like damp wool and old…