Last Night at the Gym
My name is Perry Brooks, I am fifty-one years old, and last Friday night I did something at the gym that I had never done in five years of…
Stories in Toys & Masturbation tagged matter-of-fact, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 11 to 12 minutes. Writers to know: Quartz Wave, The Steel Canvas and Phantom of Lark. Readers usually start with “Last Night at the Gym” and “Maid in Barcelona”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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