The Dare Jar
I found the jar on a Tuesday in October, which figures, because Tuesdays were always the day my life decided to fall apart.
Domestic routine stories
Domestic routine stories, from quick reads to long series. Most domestic routine stories here sit in erotic couplings and bdsm. Reads run 15 to 23 minutes. Writers to know: Starling Word, Amber Garden and Salt Night. Readers usually start with “Linen Closet Tryst” and “The Midnight Pharmacy Run”. 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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41 42 The Captionist and the Roaster
The spider plant was dead.
43 The One That Got Away (Revisited)
Okay, so this is what I keep not saying out loud to anybody, because if I say it out loud it becomes real.
44 Hubby Found My Secret Wardrobe
Trixie has exactly one hour and thirty-five minutes of freedom left before Charlie gets home from the studio.
45 Dancing Through the Empty House
Rebecca Fitzgerald was forty-five years old, and on a Thursday night in October she was standing in the middle of her own living room…
46 The Twenty-One-Day Project
I was standing in my kitchen at 11:15 on a Tuesday night, still in my work trousers and the gray hoodie with the fraying cuffs, staring at…
47 The Last Confession
Darlene Shah pulled into Isobel Clausen's driveway at six forty on a Tuesday evening in late February, and the porch light was flickering…
48 The Morning List
My wife Paula makes a grocery list like she's planning a military operation.
49 Curator's Thesis
I was fifty-one years old, standing at my kitchen sink in Portland on a rainy Thursday in November, rinsing dinner plates, when the words…
50 That Thing I Never Told You
Margie Delgado was forty-two years old and bored out of her skull.
51 Andrea's Game
Bradly Horton was, by his own admission, the most sensible man in the whole state of Oregon.
52 One Night, Two Strangers
George had rehearsed the whole thing twice in the shower and once more in the hallway mirror, and he still felt like a man about to give a…
53 The Rival Visit
The suitcase showed up before she did.
54 The Neighbor's Door
I was on my couch on a Tuesday night, staring at my phone like it owed me money, when somebody knocked on my door.
55 HR Training
I turned fifty-three on a Tuesday in March, and I spent most of that morning in my office at work staring at the wall and thinking about…
56 The Divorce Party
*This story was born from the idea that sometimes the most interesting thing you can do with a rule is break it.
57 Rival's Edge
The rain is coming down hard on Brody's windows and I'm standing in his doorway wondering, not for the first time, what the hell I'm doing…
58 Latex Second Chance
I'm forty-two years old and I've been a paramedic for sixteen years.
59 Rear Fence Lessons
My name is Lance Oakley, I've been a runner most of my life, and I have spent most of my adult life being the sensible one.
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