The Last Dance Lesson
Zahra Macdonald was twenty-four years old and divorced.
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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Exes stories, ranked by readers
41 42 Last Exit Before
Don Carroll was fifty-four years old, and he had spent most of those years holding the needle instead of the rope.
43 The Last Layover
I sat there in Terminal 1 with my laptop bag and my little roller case and listened to the fluorescent lights hum, and I thought, well…
44 Bitter Root
Vicki took the ramp down at fifteen miles an hour and hated every second of it.
45 Bridge Painter for the Night
So here's how my Tuesday night started: me, a green plastic watering can, and the glass door of the Plumco call center lobby, which I have…
46 Tight Lines
I've been cleaning trains for three years now, and I still can't fully explain to people at parties why I like it.
47 The Shift
I lasted forty minutes at Greta's friend's housewarming before I found the balcony.
48 Coins in the Fountain
I was twenty-nine years old last July, and I spent one whole afternoon in the back of a bowling alley buffing a pin with a rag.
49 The Mortar & The Fall
They put us in a closet.
50 Letters on the Testing Station
I wrote the first letter at two in the morning in the ambulance bay, sitting on the bumper of Rig Two with the bay doors open because the…
51 The Layover and the Endpaper
Katherine Cummings was thirty-four years old and had been awake for twenty hours.
52 Slide Pack Shuffle
I'm on my knees in the storage bay, cinching a tether strap around a rolled evacuation slide, when I hear the door roll up behind me.
53 Rearview
The clock above the register said 2:04 when Nicky heard the engine coming up US-6, that ragged cough-and-sputter sound of a car that had…
54 Happy Birthday, Again
I woke up at 7:14 on the rusty patio sofa in Mollie's garage with a bathrobe draped over me and no memory of getting there, which is a bad…
55 The Silence of Caraz
Sofia Meyers was forty-two years old and she had taken three buses to get to Caraz, and the last one had a rooster in it, and she was not…
56 Bet on the Vintage
The vat is winning.
57 The House Key
I'm Cathy, I'm forty-three, and I deliver packages for a living.
58 Second Cast on Love
I turned fifty-two in March and I celebrated by buying myself a new coffee maker and sleeping in.
59 The Wrong Way In
Right off, I'm twenty-three years old and I should have known better.
60 Marathon Night
The dome swallowed sound in a funny way.
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