Backstroke at Midnight
The greenhouse smelled like wet soil and orchids.
Oil and massage mature stories
Stories in Mature tagged oil and massage, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 23 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: River Atlas, Frost Phrase and Outline of Echo. Readers usually start with “Backstroke at Midnight” and “The Obedience List”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Oil and massage mature stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Obedience List
The app said Sonny was fifty-two, a music professor, divorced, comfortable alone, and that his idea of a perfect first date was "an…
03 Vet's Revenge Gone Wrong
I'm Sydney, thirty-two, and I've been a veterinarian for six years, which is long enough to know when somebody's stealing your work and…
04 Map of Us
I was on my knees in the fire hall kitchen, scrubbing the floor under the stove, when Vincent started his drill in the main bay.
05 Double Hook
The shop was called The Lure, which I always thought was a pun that thought too much of itself.
06 The Last Haul
Sienna called me at seven in the morning, after we'd both been up all night on a shift.
07 Base Leave
I turned sixty-two in March and I still work the night shift at Red Canyon Warehouse, out on the edge of Dry Mesa where the highway bends…
08 The Cider Mill Mix-Up
My name is Hanna, I'm fifty-four years old, and I have a problem.
09 The Last Good Thing
Driving seven hours to ruin your ex-husband's anniversary is a complicated matter.