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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
81 82 Last Call for Us
I had one more night in Meridian and a list of things I never got done.
83 Dead Air at Dead Man's Lodge
The GPS gives up at the fork in the access road.
84 Compact Only
The bus dropped me at the end of the gravel road at four in the afternoon.
85 The Seed Analyst's Ex
The Silver Spoon Mall sat off Route 6 like it always had, a long low building with a tin roof and a hand painted sign that had been fading…
86 The Caravan Road
The road through the Marrow Valley was the same as every other road.
87 Gallery Nights
The heat came early this year.
88 The Lake Cottage Off-Season
Piper Byrne was thirty-four years old and had never once driven a car, which was a fact she'd been dodging at parties for a decade.
89 Drinks in the Crew Bar
My name is Hilary Fox, I'm twenty-nine years old, and I was pacing the promenade deck of a ferry as if I'd lost my keys, my wallet, and my…
90 The Dress That Broke the Exes
I want to start by saying I wasn't even supposed to be drinking that night, which is relevant, because everything after this happened on…
91 The Color of Want
*This one was born from a thought about birthdays and what it means to let someone see you fresh, even when they already know your history.
92 Respite Protocol
The cargo lifter had been complaining for the better part of an hour before it actually quit on them.
93 The Séance Job
The email said the hackathon was at a piano restoration shop, which I figured was some kind of joke until I looked it up.
94 The Diving Bell
I drove up to the cottage on a Thursday in late April, and the first thing I saw was the lake, gray and flat as an ironing board.
95 One Last Night at the Trailhead
Sandra Driscoll was thirty-four years old and she was done.
96 The Library Shift
The job came to me through a guy at church named Dale, who said the community college out past the highway was desperate for a night…
97 The Late Sitting
The text message from Bruno said fourth floor, room 408, and I remember standing in the freight elevator at eleven at night thinking how…
98 A Mile High Over the Tarmac
The accordion case banged against my knee the whole walk from the car park.
99 The Bitter Brew of Second Chances
Alicia was forty minutes from closing when the door stuck in its usual way and then swung in, letting a slab of humid August air into The…
100 The HR File on Leela Malone
*This one started with the image of a retirement party gone sideways because the ex shows up with a clipboard and a grudge.
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Exes stories, from quick reads to long series.
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Most exes stories take 14 to 24 minutes, and the average is 19. Sort by shortest to start small, or follow a series to get each part as it lands.