Paddle and Proof
I've been a fact checker for twenty-one years.
Spouses loving wives stories
Stories in Loving Wives tagged spouses, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 17 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Quartz Pen, The Wren Season and The Sundown Works. Readers usually start with “Paddle and Proof” and “The Doorbell Rings Twice”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Spouses loving wives stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Doorbell Rings Twice
A chocolate tour in Belgium.
03 Glacier Punch
Okay so here's how our twelve-hour layover in the middle of Icelandic nowhere started: me complaining.
04 The Karaoke Secret
The house was too quiet.
05 The Third Between Us
Dina told me about Carla on our third date, back when she was twenty-one and I was twenty-two, and I have thought about that story more…
06 The Librarian's Double Shift
My name's Marshall Wayne, I'm forty-three years old, and I've been teaching high school history for long enough that I can grade a stack…
07 The Ranch Hand's Mistake
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…
08 The Warehouse Wife
*This one came from a conversation about how long-married couples sometimes need a new language to talk about desire.
09 The Wandering Hand
*This one started with an image of a woman watching her husband through glass, not sure what she wanted to find.
10 Faculty Lounge
The faculty lounge at Walnut Grove Community College smelled like burnt coffee and old carpet, and I was sitting in it alone at…
11 The Snow Globe Favor
I keep a snow globe on the shelf above my bunk.
12 Pipes and Protocols
I fix pipes for a living.
13 Wife's Leave
My husband Andre has been deployed since March, and by October I was going a little strange in the head.
14 The Hayloft Sessions
I'm thirty-four years old and I have built my whole life out of sensible choices, the way a mason builds a wall, one flat stone at a time…
15 The Anniversary Guest
*This one came from thinking about how even good marriages can get quiet, and what happens when you let a stranger's hands remind you what…
16 After Hours Pruning
The parking lot at GreenScape Corp was empty except for Aileen's Honda and mine, and the security lights had already kicked down to that…