A Gift of Trust
The fall happened on a Tuesday.
Stories in Loving Wives tagged food play, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 19 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Storm Notebook, Compass of Dawn and The Echo Narrative. Readers usually start with “A Gift of Trust” and “The Second Shot”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The fall happened on a Tuesday.
He'd been thinking about the anniversary for three weeks straight.
I've been a fact checker for twenty-one years.
My name is Nana, I'm forty-two years old, and until last night the most reckless thing I'd done in nineteen years of marriage was switch…
Destiny parked her old Honda behind the salvage yard at six in the evening and sat there for a minute with her hands on the wheel.
Max was fifty-four years old and he gave massages for a living.
I've been married two years now, and in that time I've learned one thing about myself that I keep learning over and over: I like to have a…
I keep a snow globe on the shelf above my bunk.
*This story came from wanting to write something blunt about wanting and the way desire can crack open a life that's gone quiet.
I woke up and knew two things right away.
*This story is a warm, nostalgic take on a couple exploring their edges together, like a birthday gift that keeps unwrapping itself.