Slow Hands, Quiet Trust
*This story came from wondering what it looks like when two people who've known each other for years find something new in the middle of…
Stories in Mature tagged latex, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 22 to 25 minutes. Writers to know: Vermilion Fiction, North Reverie and Midnight Draft. Readers usually start with “Slow Hands, Quiet Trust” and “The Sour Hour”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
*This story came from wondering what it looks like when two people who've known each other for years find something new in the middle of…
I turned sixty-two last March and I celebrated it the way I have celebrated most things lately, that is to say I did not celebrate it.
It was two in the morning and I was thirty-eight hundred lines into Rudy's garbage code.
Wilma had been looking forward to this evening for three weeks, and she was not going to let a little thing like turning sixty-four make…
Beverly had driven twenty miles of freeway and then past the address twice before she worked up the nerve to park.
*This story was born from a daydream about a loan officer meeting his match in a woman who's lived a little.
The pier at Seaspray Point smelled like rope and salt and cold diesel, and I stood at the end of it for a good two minutes before I walked…
My name is Dianne, I'm thirty-four years old, and I've been married to Sonny for five years.
Kelli had been staring at the invitation for four days when she finally made the call.
The tourists left Dunemouth in the middle of October, and by the first week of November the town had gone quiet in a way that took some…