The Final Lift
I got to the old bell buoy depot at seven in the morning with a clipboard, two coffees, and no idea what I was getting myself into.
Spouses romance stories
Stories in Romance tagged spouses, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 24 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Logic of Willow, The Crimson Story and Meridian Phantom. Readers usually start with “The Final Lift” and “Revenge Highway”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Spouses romance stories, ranked by readers
01 02 Revenge Highway
I had the revenge all mapped out, which is a funny thing to say about a man driving a Lincoln through the Panhandle with his wife of…
03 The Last Demo
Isobel Wickham was twenty-four years old and had spent the last eighteen months of her life answering phones at a dental clinic, which is…
04 The Carpenter's Wife
Trev Price was twenty-four years old, and he had built things with his hands since he was old enough to hold a hammer without dropping it…
05 The Tami Tango Tournament
Let me start by saying my wife Tami is twenty-eight, I'm thirty-one, and neither one of us can dance.
06 The Unlikely Spanner
My husband is thirty-eight years old and on the last Saturday of June he was doing forty miles an hour around a dirt oval at the Old Mill…
07 The Ferry Reckoning
You know what used to kill me about Krissy?
08 The Cartographer’s Promise
The ferry gets in at eleven on a Thursday, and I'm standing on the dock by eleven-oh-five with two bags and a coffee I already regret…
09 The Watchmaker's Wife
The mushrooms were winning.
10 Hidden Hands, Open Hearts
Valentina tunes her cello in the empty event hall and thinks about strangers.
11 The Morning List
My wife Paula makes a grocery list like she's planning a military operation.
12 The Right Mistake
Lena texted me on a Thursday: Sparrow's Roost, eight o'clock, I have news.
13 The Mussel Bed Waltz
I'd been auctioning things for twenty-seven years, and I can tell you that every room has a sound to it, a kind of hum you learn to read…
14 Fake Husband, Real Feelings
I moved to Silver Pass three years ago.
15 The Bride's Father's Wife
My name is Lara.