Bottle Job
The last box in the truck was the heavy one, of course.
Stories in Loving Wives tagged uniforms, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 18 to 25 minutes. Writers to know: The Ginger Season, Thorn Fable and Cinder Highway. Readers usually start with “Bottle Job” and “Making Her Watch”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The last box in the truck was the heavy one, of course.
*This one came from wanting to write something playful and hot without any angsty betrayal, just a wife reminding everyone she's the one.
Lara stood at the bar of the Blue Heron with her second gin and tonic getting warm in her hand, and she was doing the thing she hated…
I was twenty-nine years old last July, and I spent one whole afternoon in the back of a bowling alley buffing a pin with a rag.
Forty years.
I've been a wedding DJ for twenty-six years, twenty-three of them married to Siobhan, and in all that time I've learned one thing about…
*This is a warm, nostalgic little story about two friends who find a moment of fun without messing up their real lives.
I finished my last walk-through of the hotel at eleven fifteen and texted Bess that the bar was still open.
The move was supposed to be the exciting part, the fresh start, the chapter where Jon and I turned thirty-something into something better…
The Drowned Rat smells like spilled beer and forty years of old wood, which is exactly why I like it.