The Garlic Knot
My name is Wendell Cameron, I'm twenty-eight years old, and until last Sunday I thought the strangest thing in my life was the smell of…
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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My name is Wendell Cameron, I'm twenty-eight years old, and until last Sunday I thought the strangest thing in my life was the smell of…
Magnus locked the door behind them and stood there a second with his hand still on the bolt.
*This one came from a conversation about how long-married couples sometimes need a new language to talk about desire.
I'm Serena, twenty-four years old, and I drive a forklift for a living.
*This one came from a long Sunday afternoon with nothing but dust motes in the light.
Karina Webb finished the last roast at 9:40 on a Thursday night and turned off the drum.
Pam had been married to Shannon for over fifteen years, and in that time she had given her a series of memorable gifts, including one…
The paint chip found me on a Thursday afternoon, if you can believe that kind of luck.
*This story was born from a bet I once overheard in a farmer's market: how much heat can two people who already trust each other carry in…
My name is Sian Erickson and I am thirty-four years old.
Three months ago I was still living near the coast, teaching swim lessons at the Y in Cannon Beach, smelling like chlorine six days a week.
The ovens needed feeding at midnight.
The garage needed cleaning the way most things in my life needed cleaning, it didn't, really, but Deb had put it on the calendar and I had…
My name is Mallory Bronson, I am sixty-two years old, and last Tuesday I threw up in a mop bucket at work.
*This one started with an image of a woman watching her husband through glass, not sure what she wanted to find.
I was sitting at a café on the cliff road in Vila do Mar, drinking a lager I didn't really like and thinking about my marriage in the…
My husband is thirty-eight years old and on the last Saturday of June he was doing forty miles an hour around a dirt oval at the Old Mill…
Virginia looked out the window as the Buick slid down the ramp into the underground garage.
I found the first note on a Tuesday, twelve days before wrap, tucked into the inside pocket of a navy blazer I was letting out for the…
The barn smelled like machine oil and old beans on Tuesday.
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