The Layover Proposal
The board did that thing where it flickered, and then our flight number just wasn't there anymore.
Stories in Toys & Masturbation tagged spouses, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 10 to 11 minutes. Writers to know: Cedar Refrain, Obsidian Epilogue and Phantom of Lark. Readers usually start with “The Layover Proposal” and “Catalogue Night”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The board did that thing where it flickered, and then our flight number just wasn't there anymore.
My name is Stephanie, I'm forty-two, and I've been married to Shane for seventeen years.
The pager sat on the shelf by the door where it always sat, and I had picked it up and put it down maybe forty times by the time the sky…
My name is Sian Erickson and I am thirty-four years old.
I got the promotion on a Tuesday, and by the time I pulled into our lot the sun was already going down behind the storage units across the…
I turned forty-four on a Thursday.
I'm Keira Potter, I'm fifty-four years old, and last Tuesday I accidentally signed up for a pottery class instead of a painting class.
The tandem bike showed up on a Tuesday, and it wasn't even ours.
Another Tuesday, another ten hours of my hands smelling like garlic no matter how many times I scrubbed them.