The Honey Pot at Dawn
I want to tell you about the honey pot, but first you need to know about the seaweed.
Stories in Romance tagged coworkers, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 24 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: The Sable Echo, The Garnet Cadence and Salt Night. Readers usually start with “The Honey Pot at Dawn” and “Closing Time at the Hopper”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
I want to tell you about the honey pot, but first you need to know about the seaweed.
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…
*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.
The taxi dropped me at the end of the crushed shell road a little after four in the afternoon, and I stood there with my guitar case and…
The night I met Eli, I'd been on shift for fourteen hours and I'd already told Delia I was done with this job twice.
I drove up to Dunewalk on a gray Tuesday in early November.
The taxi dropped me on the corner by the old textile mill at eight in the morning, a full two hours before the rehearsal was supposed to…
The last guest left around eleven.
The bride was twenty-six, which she told me three times during the fitting the day before the wedding, as though I might forget between…
The plan was simple enough.
I was thirty-seven years old, three years out of my divorce, and sitting in the IT wing of St.
The phone went off at 4 a.m.
I was up on the ladder, halfway through a pine branch, when the door to the main hall banged open and somebody whistled at me.