The Archive Invitation
It had been two years, give or take a month, since I'd last stood in front of Terry Walsh, and the whole drive over I kept rehearsing what…
Exes stories
Exes stories, from quick reads to long series. Most exes stories here sit in romance and erotic couplings. Reads run 14 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Garnet Wanderer, Timber Route and The Sundown Works. Readers usually start with “Ghost Route Letters” and “The Slaughterhouse Wife”. 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 Welder and the Sound Guy
I never wanted to go to a folk festival, not really, but the town was three hours from anywhere and Diane had been talking about it for a…
23 The Welder and the Waitress
The grinder screamed and threw sparks across the tarp I'd nailed over the carpet, and I was so deep in the work that the knock at my door…
24 Last Caravan, Lost Love
The ration ledgers had their own smell, Kerry thought, and after eight years of working the registration tent she had stopped noticing it.
25 The Glass Armonica Blank
Liv Bowman pulled her pickup into the gravel lot behind the annex at 6:40, twenty minutes early like always.
26 Making Her Watch
*This one came from wanting to write something playful and hot without any angsty betrayal, just a wife reminding everyone she's the one.
27 The Last Frequency
The rain had been coming down since Dayton, and by the time the van rolled into Lark County the fair's lights had gone soft and smeared…
28 Pumpkin Hollow Reunion
The call came in on a Tuesday, which is how these things always seem to happen, on the worst possible day.
29 Playlist for the Dead Air
Ray Mata got out of his Corolla outside the warehouse on Wythe Avenue and checked his teeth in the rearview mirror.
30 Bitter Cake
I got to the Baker place at ten in the morning, which was early even for me, but the bride's mother had insisted the house needed to be…
31 Behind the Pass
Preston had been at his desk since six in the morning, and by nine that night the words on his screen had stopped meaning anything.
32 The Reunion Dress
I turned sixty-two this fall, and I figured by then I'd know better than to wear my heart to my own son's wedding.
33 The Farmer's Tease
I was hip deep in muck and misery, shoveling the barn, when I heard Lynette's truck.
34 Steam and Static
I woke up at six something in the morning in a bed that wasn't mine, in a room that smelled like cedar and sulfur, and for about four…
35 The Dress Fits
Jessi Alvarez arrived at the country club at nine in the morning on a Friday, thirty-one years old and carrying a garment bag full of…
36 Flying Kites at Dusk
I'd like to tell you I drove up to Gaborone that morning feeling calm and confident, but the truth is I'd been rehearsing what to say for…
37 Deadwater Watch
The job posting had said live-aboard house sitting, three weeks, quiet ship, no pets.
38 Flour and Fiction
I want to tell you this story right, so let me start at the beginning, which for me is standing in a hotel parking lot at eleven at night…
39 Echo Bloom
The escape pod was not built for two.
40 The North Watch
The duffel was heavier than it needed to be, and that was my own fault.
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