Linen Closet Tryst
I signed up for the couples cooking class alone, which tells you most of what you need to know about me.
Playful and teasing stories, from quick reads to long series. Most playful and teasing stories here sit in sci-fi & fantasy and first time. Reads run 15 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Cedar Refrain, Jasper Narrative and Opal Fiction. Readers usually start with “Linen Closet Tryst” and “The Rivet and the Rivet”. 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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I signed up for the couples cooking class alone, which tells you most of what you need to know about me.
My divorce went through in March, and by June I was still eating dinner standing at the counter like someone who hadn't figured out his…
Olive here.
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Christina Porter had photographed a lot of strange assignments in her thirty-eight years behind a camera, but she was pretty sure this was…
Moira Tomlinson stood at the entrance of the old bus depot and asked herself, for the third time, what exactly she thought she was doing.
The storm hit the law firm around four in the afternoon, right when I was halfway through the conference room carpet with the extractor…
Gail had been in Caherdaniel for fourteen months by then, and most of that time she had spent telling herself that starting over at…
My name is Cherie Denton, I'm twenty-four years old, and two years ago I married a woman.
Monica had been working at city hall for six years, and in all that time she had never once needed to go into the basement storage room at…
The off-season at the Sea Crest Resort is a strange kind of quiet.
I work at the Heritage Museum in town.
My phone buzzed again in the cupholder.
Tulani sat in her apartment on the Sunday evening and listened to the quiet.
Dottie punched in at the gate at ten minutes to nine and the guard booth smelled like old coffee, the same as every other night shift she…
Nicky Middleton had her arm in the stock tank up to the shoulder, breaking ice out of it with a hammer, when her phone buzzed against her…
I got to Port Stephen on a Friday afternoon in June.
Fifty-two years old today and I'm standing outside a burial vault factory.
So here's what my Tuesdays looked like for the past five years.
Candi drove the last mile with the window cracked because Luke had insisted the truck smelled like gasoline, and Luke sat with the contest…
Cedar Refrain, Jasper Narrative, Opal Fiction, The Breeze Draft
Playful and teasing stories, from quick reads to long series.
Some stories are free to read in full, with no account. The rest open with a free preview; members read everything.
Most playful and teasing stories take 15 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.