The Honey Pot at Dawn
I want to tell you about the honey pot, but first you need to know about the seaweed.
Tender and slow romance stories
Stories in Romance tagged tender and slow, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 24 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Salt Night, Brass Ghost and The Crimson Story. 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.
Tender and slow romance stories, ranked by readers
01 02 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…
03 The Last Watch
The quiet up here was the thing I kept waiting to get used to.
04 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…
05 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…
06 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…
07 The Houseboat Secret
I lost my wallet at the church fair on a Saturday in June, which is the kind of thing that happens when you eat a funnel cake standing up…
08 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…
09 Rainwater Pact
I stood on the viewing platform and stared at the clay towers.
10 Stage Lights and Second Takes
The bus to Copper Hill runs twice a day from the county seat, and I was on the afternoon one, which meant I got to sit behind a farmer who…
11 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…
12 The Spice Rack Waltz
The heat in Málaga this August was stupid.
13 The Ferry Reckoning
You know what used to kill me about Krissy?
14 The Wednesday Dress Code
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…
15 The Last Picture Show
Vikki Leonard parked her car at the edge of the old drive-in lot and sat there a moment with her hands on the wheel.
16 The Subwoofer Above
Tucker was under a pickup at the shop when his phone buzzed on the workbench.
17 Reckoning at Sunrise
*This one came from wanting a slow-burn goodbye that aches more than any fight.