The Trampoline Incident
It was a Friday night at The Gilded Fork and we were slammed.
Stories in Toys & Masturbation tagged oil and massage, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run about 11 minutes. Writers to know: Quartz Wave, Obsidian Epilogue and The Topaz Tempo. Readers usually start with “The Trampoline Incident” and “The Grip of the Gilded Hour”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
It was a Friday night at The Gilded Fork and we were slammed.
The divorce was final in April.
I'm Cora, twenty-eight, and I run the ferry booth out at Port Blossom.
I turned forty-four on a Thursday.
I'd been driving past The Velvet Garter for three Tuesdays before I finally parked the car on the fourth Tuesday.
I finished my shift at nine and hung my apron on the hook by the kitchen door.
I locked the reading room door behind me with hands that wouldn't quit shaking.
The tandem bike showed up on a Tuesday, and it wasn't even ours.
I want to start by saying I'm thirty-five years old and I own four hundred acres of good cattle land outside Billings, and until last…