The Embalmer's Watch
Olive here.
Spouses stories, from quick reads to long series. Most spouses stories here sit in loving wives and erotic couplings. Reads run 14 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Logic of Willow, The Autumn Epilogue and The Iron Horizon. Readers usually start with “The Embalmer's Watch” and “Mulberry and Midnight”. 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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Olive here.
I wiped the dust off the champagne tap with my sleeve.
Letter 1 Dear James, You left the market paperwork on the kitchen table again, so I figured I'd write instead of texting.
My name is Debbie.
**Letter One** Dear Calvin, I'm writing this from the hotel lobby in Lamentin, which has the kind of furniture that pretends to be antique…
The mud was everywhere.
The streetlight outside Greenwood Taxidermy had been flickering since before I got the job, and it was still flickering the night I drove…
We got married a year ago, when I was twenty-three and Lori was twenty-four, and then we spent almost the whole first year of it living in…
I turned forty-three on a Tuesday, which is nobody's favorite birthday, let's be honest.
The off-season at the Sea Crest Resort is a strange kind of quiet.
The thing you have to understand about me is that I plan things.
Evelyn Mackey clocked out of the feed store at six fifteen on a Tuesday, and her whole body felt like a sack of chicken feed by the time…
We booked the Alpenrose Lodge back in October, and I had the whole weekend planned out with meticulous precision.
Briana was thirty-four years old and she felt like furniture.
My name is Kane, I'm thirty-four, and I cook for a living.
Kimberly got the call at four in the afternoon on a Tuesday, standing in the back of the bar she worked at with a crate of limes on the…
I stepped off the porch of the eco-lodge and my boot went straight into mud up to the ankle.
Evangeline Murphey had been cleaning floors at Laverton District Hospital for thirty-nine years, and in all that time she had never once…
My name is Gregg, I'm fifty-two years old, and I've been married to Mary for twenty-two years.
I've been a fact checker for twenty-one years.
Logic of Willow, The Autumn Epilogue, The Iron Horizon, Current of North
Spouses 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 spouses 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.