The Fermenting Rivalry
The thing you have to understand about the fermentation barn at our vineyard in Nababeep is that it hums, all day and all night, a low…
Rivals stories
Rivals stories, from quick reads to long series. Most rivals stories here sit in bdsm and exhibitionist & voyeur. Reads run 16 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Topaz Fiction, Echo Transit and The Iron Horizon. Readers usually start with “The Fermenting Rivalry” and “Taste of the Bitter Herb”. 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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01 02 Taste of the Bitter Herb
"You want me to hold your life in my hands?"
03 Wrong Porch, Right Now
My name is Gerald, I am fifty-four years old, and until eight months ago I lived a life of quiet dignity in a suburb where the only thing…
04 Oyster Days and Off-Season Ways
My mother's family came over from Jamaica in nineteen fifty-something, and I've told that story so many times I could do it in my sleep.
05 The Last Shift at the Glasshouse
The snow starts around four in the afternoon.
06 The Night Shift Bet
The intercom crackled at 1:40 in the morning and I nearly jumped out of my chair.
07 The Button Tin
I run the puppet workshop in a town of about eight hundred people, which means I run the anniversary show, the decorating committee, the…
08 The Scale and the Bonfire
Kelly Sander was forty-three years old, a veterinarian, and by nine that night she had already apologized to her GPS twice for calling it…
09 What the Maid Hid
My cousin Sara got married on a Saturday in October, and somehow I ended up being the one who stayed behind to watch the lodge.
10 The Last Choir Practice
I joined the choir six months ago.
11 Rival Roots
The wall between my apartment and Joe's is about as thick as a wet paper towel, so at 2 a.m.
12 The Ham Radio
I lost my wallet somewhere between the car park and the chippy, which is the sort of thing you do when you're fifty-two and your sister…
13 The Regulars' Show
Thirty-four years, folks.
14 The Last Spin
The laundromat smelled like old dryer sheets and dust, and Marion stood in front of the change machine for the third time, patting her…
15 The Second Shot
He'd been thinking about the anniversary for three weeks straight.
16 The Wrong Terminal
The bus stopped and the driver said, "Terminal Four," and Carson and I just sat there like idiots because that was not our terminal.
17 Gloves Off, Hearts On
My week had been the same six days in a row, which was driving pills and inhalers and the occasional oxygen tank around town in a white…
18 The Pleasure Pact
Marisa Kruger was thirty-four years old, and she had spent eleven of those years being the most trustworthy woman in Bracken-Hollow.
19 Stern Warning
The email came on a Tuesday.
20 The Glasses Between Us
Belinda Gonzales was fifty-two years old and she held views about tip jars.
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10 to 30 minutesBest rivals stories of 2026Writers known for it
Topaz Fiction, Echo Transit, The Iron Horizon, Lodge of Sundown
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