Demolition of the Heart
I was fifty-two years old, divorced almost six months, and I was standing in the gravel driveway of a dead man's house with a clipboard I…
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Dark and intense stories, from quick reads to long series. Most dark and intense stories here sit in erotic couplings and bdsm. Reads run 15 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Topaz Type, The Rowan Anchor and The Birch Coda. Readers usually start with “Deep Brine” and “Letters from the Wild Garlic”. Ranked by how many readers finish them. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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21 22 The Quiet Shift
You'd think after forty years of living in Millerstown I'd be used to the quiet.
23 Pressured
The storm hit around three in the afternoon.
24 The Time-Slip Waitress
The clock above the pie case says 11:47.
25 Debt of Echoes
Malik Dawkins was thirty-four years old, and he was watching a woman take his sound booth apart with her bare hands.
26 Dressed for Her Pleasure
*This one came from a moody image of an empty school gym at night and the idea of finding intimacy in the most unexpected places.
27 Resonant Pairings
Damian Sanders was twenty-eight and he could not remember the last time Grace had cried in front of him before tonight.
28 Orbital Bid
Amelie had watched a lot of people win things.
29 Knob and Shell
Dear Lamar, I am sixty-two years old and I am writing you a letter because if I had to say this out loud I would rather be swallowed by…
30 The Botany of Blame
Galen had been twenty-eight for exactly two weeks when the tie happened, and he would think about that for the rest of the night.
31 The Salt Blessing
Tom Newsome was twenty-eight and he'd been hauling pallets up to the pulping station long enough to know the drill.
32 Snow in the Ginger
The divorce papers came through in March, nine months ago now, and I still haven't figured out what to do with the cabinet where my coffee…
33 The Night Shift Tutor
Rufus Smyth, thirty-four years old and recently signed to a two-week security contract, pulled up to St.
34 Late Return
My name is Sammie and I'm thirty-eight years old, and I have worked the front desk at the Maplewood Curling Club for eleven years.
35 The Stewardess Uniform
Nolan woke up on his thirty-fourth birthday and stared at the ceiling.
36 The Sour Hour
I turned sixty-two last March and I celebrated it the way I have celebrated most things lately, that is to say I did not celebrate it.
37 Code Red
It was two in the morning and I was thirty-eight hundred lines into Rudy's garbage code.
38 Tide Pool Tryst
Mila was twenty-seven years old and had been guiding rivers and coastal trails out of Bar Harbor for five summers, and in all that time…
39 The Chef's After-Hours Arrangement
It's eleven forty on a Thursday and I'm alone in the demo kitchen at the academy, breaking down my station for the second time because I…
40 Dress for Revenge
My flight was delayed six hours at 3:40 on a Thursday and I found out my ex works Terminal C.
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