The Honey Pot at Dawn
I want to tell you about the honey pot, but first you need to know about the seaweed.
Romance stories
Romance stories. Romance stories, from quick reads to long series. Reads run 24 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Logic of Willow, The Quartz Quill and Salt Night. Readers usually start with “The Honey Pot at Dawn” and “Boots and a Tent”. 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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01 02 Boots and a Tent
The ferry left Dover at five in the morning, and I was on the deck for it because I figured if I was going to have a nervous breakdown…
03 Closing Time at the Hopper
My name is Samuel Browne, I am fifty-five years old, and I have spent thirty years cleaning the same processing plant on the same dairy…
04 The Cold Swim
The train from Visp climbs into the mountains like it can't decide whether it wants to make it, and I spend the whole ride refreshing the…
05 The Last Watch
The quiet up here was the thing I kept waiting to get used to.
06 Second Chance Sunday
I woke up in a bed that wasn't mine with somebody's arm heavy across my ribs and sunlight coming through blinds I did not recognize, and I…
07 The Lantern Rite
The lantern went lit at the mountain lodge at nine sharp, and Lexie Hooper was ready before the old man finished the blessing.
08 The Last Newsletter
My birthday was in three days, and I was spending the morning before it crawling through a broken escalator in a dying shopping mall in…
09 The Night We Weren't Ourselves
I drove up to Redwood National Park on a Friday afternoon in late August, twenty-four years old and tired in a way that sleep wasn't going…
10 The Good Cook
I was breaking down a case of beets when my date from Tuesday texted me again.
11 The Incorrect Beep
I'm forty-four years old, and let me state right off that I took this job for the money and nothing else, so when I say what happened…
12 When He Held Her Steady
I want to tell you about the night everything shifted at The Crux, but I have to back up a bit first, because the whole mess starts with a…
13 The Rope Swing
*This one came from thinking about how good it feels to be the one who knows what she wants and gets to teach someone gentle.
14 Late Night Laps
So here's how my Monday went.
15 Cabin Crush Under the Eclipse
The directions said take the gravel road past the second cattle grid and keep going until you think you've made a mistake, and that's…
16 Last Call at the Karaoke Bar
Leah was thirty-five the winter the snow came early, and she still counted herself lucky every Thursday when she walked out of her studio…
17 The Feed Tally
The sign on the gate still read Dry Creek Ranch in paint that was peeling, and I had been reading that sign for thirty-three years.
18 The Tile Job
I took the whole first week of June off, which for me is basically a miracle.
19 The Lifeguard Bet
My name is Collin Parson, I'm twenty-eight, and I've been lifeguarding at the Merritt Falls municipal pool for six summers now.
20 Snow in the Ginger
The divorce papers came through in March, nine months ago now, and I still haven't figured out what to do with the cabinet where my coffee…
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Breathless and eager romanceMatter-of-fact romanceWarm and nostalgic romanceTender and slow romanceSpouses romanceLeather romanceFeet romanceRaw and blunt romanceCoworkers romanceA couple who have been dating a while, not married romanceBody worship romanceExes romanceWriters known for it
Logic of Willow, The Quartz Quill, Salt Night, Plum Chronicle