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…
Stories in Romance tagged hair pulling and hair play, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 24 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Salt Night, Onyx Anchor and The Garnet Cadence. Readers usually start with “The Incorrect Beep” and “The Last Shift”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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…
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 was forty minutes into my weekly Friday night beer when Grady Jenkin came shuffling over with that look on his face.
The beach house was one of those rentals that looked like it had been arguing with the ocean for forty years and losing slowly, gray…
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 breakup was three weeks old when I finally walked into McGee's alone.
I turned thirty-five at midnight, and I spent the last hour of my thirty-fourth year wiping down a bar that was already clean.
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…
*This one came from the idea that not every romance is forever, and that's okay.
I was thirty-seven years old, three years out of my divorce, and sitting in the IT wing of St.
Let me tell you something about me first.
The text came in at half past nine on a Tuesday night, while I was wiping down the espresso machine for the third time because there was…