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Loving Wives stories
Loving Wives stories. Loving Wives stories, from quick reads to long series. Reads run 18 to 25 minutes. Writers to know: The Oak Crossing, Field of Orchard and Quartz Pen. Readers usually start with “Wrong Porch, Right Now” and “Stranded at Midnight”. Ranked by how many readers finish them. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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Loving Wives stories, ranked by readers
41 42 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…
43 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…
44 The Warehouse Wife
*This one came from a conversation about how long-married couples sometimes need a new language to talk about desire.
45 The Cartographer's Mistake
I want to start this by saying I'm twenty-nine years old and I should know better.
46 Tasting Lessons
Fair week again.
47 Button Jar
My name is Janelle Hall, I am sixty-two years old, and I have been married to Kenneth for thirty-eight years.
48 A debt of grace
There are four years of casseroles behind this story, so I suppose I ought to start there.
49 The Wandering Hand
*This one started with an image of a woman watching her husband through glass, not sure what she wanted to find.
50 The Surf Coach's Secret
You'd think a woman who teaches surfing for a living would never feel stale.
51 Archives and Ashes
The red-eye into Portland landed at 6:12 in the morning.
52 She Shines So Bright
"You're telling me you spent six weeks with a bunch of retired dentists and you didn't even hit the beach?"
53 The Venue Shifter
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…
54 Snow Melt
Jake here.
55 The Dance Lesson
The whole thing started because my wife bought new heels.
56 Ice and Ashes
I had been in this town eleven months and I could already name every boring hour of it.
57 The Midnight Watch
The travel agent called it a couples' cruise.
58 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…
59 The Snow Globe Favor
I keep a snow globe on the shelf above my bunk.
60 Pipes and Protocols
I fix pipes for a living.
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The Oak Crossing, Field of Orchard, Quartz Pen, Sundown Island