Forklift and Firelight
I park the truck at the far end of the dirt lot and sit there a minute, watching myself in the mirror.
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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I park the truck at the far end of the dirt lot and sit there a minute, watching myself in the mirror.
I've been married to Regina for six years.
Helen Marchetti met DeShawn Cole in the fall of her twenty-sixth year, in a second-year grad studio that smelled like spray adhesive and…
A chocolate tour in Belgium.
*This one came from thinking about how even people who love each other can get lonely in the same bed.
Okay so here's how our twelve-hour layover in the middle of Icelandic nowhere started: me complaining.
I sat at the kitchen table with a glass of red wine and no good reason for drinking it.
My name is Sammie and I'm thirty-eight years old, and I have worked the front desk at the Maplewood Curling Club for eleven years.
The storm came in faster than the forecast said it would.
I'm fifty-two years old and I run the dispatch floor at Marlow Taxi.
The parking lot of St.
I came home early on a Thursday.
The dryer had been dead for days, apparently.
I got to the old bell buoy depot at seven in the morning with a clipboard, two coffees, and no idea what I was getting myself into.
The board did that thing where it flickered, and then our flight number just wasn't there anymore.
The night shift at a desert motel teaches a man two things.
The rental office in Fairfield Hollow was supposed to be open until six.
I'm Lawrence, twenty-eight, and I work at a bank, which is exactly as fun as it sounds.
The house was too quiet.
My name is Stephanie, I'm forty-two, and I've been married to Shane for seventeen years.
Logic of Willow, The Autumn Epilogue, The Iron Horizon, Current of North
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