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…
Longtime friends mature stories
Stories in Mature tagged longtime friends, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 24 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: River Atlas, Meadow Current and Switch of Harbor. Readers usually start with “Slow Hands, Quiet Trust” and “The Bidding War”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Longtime friends mature stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Bidding War
*This one came from thinking about how the most interesting things can happen in the most boring places.
03 The Farmer Takes Her
The county fair came around every July like a bill you forgot you owed, and every year I swore I'd skip it, and every year I went anyway.
04 The Bathhouse Experiment
The date was on a Thursday.
05 The Plus-One Clause
Kelli had been staring at the invitation for four days when she finally made the call.
06 The Rehearsal Dinner
The dress was too tight.
07 The Last Regular
Bennett Mayfield was twenty-four years old, and she had exactly one plan for the evening, which was to drink two whiskeys at The Anchor…
08 The Overnight Shift After
I woke up on the hospital cot with a crick in my neck and a face that was not my face.