The Morning After the Fair
I woke up face down in a pillow that didn't smell like mine, under a quilt I didn't own, with one leg hanging off the mattress like I'd…
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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41 42 The Lyre and the Hat
So here's how it starts, or how I remember it starting anyway, because honestly some of that weekend has gone soft in my head and other…
43 Pit Nurse
The shop smelled like grease and rubber, and the fluorescents buzzed over the polished concrete like the place was nervous too.
44 The Engine Room Typewriter
The typewriter sat on a workbench under the one working bulb in the engine room of the old naval ship.
45 Coffee and Closure
Brianna had been in the grocery store for twenty minutes and she still hadn't picked a cereal.
46 The Last Reservation
Cyndi Farrell, a white woman of thirty-six, professionally annoyed, pushed through the door of Sergio's at 7:04 on a Friday night in late…
47 The Eighth Switchback
Rain on the tent fly sounds like somebody dumping gravel on a drum.
48 The Foam Knot
The divorce papers came through two weeks ago on a Tuesday, and I was on a train to Gafuriysky District by Friday.
49 Shift Notes
I planned on writing him a note from the start.
50 Offertory
Becky Dennison was twenty-two and she knew it.
51 His Secret Room
Elly had been in the house for exactly one hour when she started arguing with her own suitcase.
52 The Language of Horses
The whole mess started, like most of my problems, because Maddy wouldn't leave me alone.
53 Sand and Salt
We came to Pelican Shores on a Friday in late October, me and Albert, three years married and both of us twenty-eight going on…
54 Snare Hit
Warren here.
55 The Diner Debacle
My name is Lorraine Baker, I'm thirty-four years old, and I've worked security at Hollis Feed and Seed for six years.
56 The Par 3 Set
Let me explain how a golf professional ends up in a recording studio above a bicycle shop on a Tuesday night.
57 Salt and Resin
Roberta Partridge had sold flowers on the same stretch of roadside for twenty years.
58 Tailgate Lessons
The bike was still standing there when Desmond threw the rig in reverse, which in hindsight was the problem.
59 Poolside Proof
Tania Howell was thirty-four years old and she had been sitting in the Wagga Wagga airport lounge for four hours, and in that time she had…
60 Sparks and Saddles
I took the job at the Broken Wheel Ranch for the money, but honestly it was half the money and half the fact that anything sounded better…
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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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