Bottle Job
The last box in the truck was the heavy one, of course.
Tender and slow loving wives stories
Stories in Loving Wives tagged tender and slow, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 22 to 25 minutes. Writers to know: Sundown Island, The Rain Detour and The Fern Poet. Readers usually start with “Bottle Job” and “Fire Room”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Tender and slow loving wives stories, ranked by readers
01 02 Fire Room
I was down in the engine room at three in the morning, mostly because there was nowhere else on the ship to be, and I was turning a wrench…
03 The Last Pose
Max was fifty-four years old and he gave massages for a living.
04 The Surf Coach's Secret
You'd think a woman who teaches surfing for a living would never feel stale.
05 Archives and Ashes
The red-eye into Portland landed at 6:12 in the morning.
06 The Midnight Watch
The travel agent called it a couples' cruise.
07 The Afternoon Shift
The note showed up on a Tuesday, folded twice and stuck under the windshield wiper of my Corolla.
08 The Pressure Cooker
The letter had been sitting in Lillian's sewing basket for who knows how long, buried under a mess of bias tape and spare buttons like it…
09 The Choir Loft
Jared Norton was twenty-four years old, and he had learned to be patient in hallways.
10 The Wrangler's Wife
Ray pulled his rental car up the gravel drive just after noon, and for a second he just sat there with the engine ticking, looking at the…