Short story · Role play
An Evening in Vinyl
Seven years in, Laura and Tom decide to play with power – properly prepared, with lists, safewords and a dress that creaks every time she moves.
Erotic stories
Short erotic stories for adults – about couples trying something new, desire that takes its time and toys that become part of the evening. Everything is fiction; the characters are invented adults.
10 stories
Short story · Long distance
Four Hundred Kilometres Away
Sophie and Ben see each other every other weekend and miss each other the rest of the time. Two parcels cross in the post, and a video call that starts with laughter ends up somewhere else entirely.
Short story · Solo
Fourteen Steps
Nine years ended without anyone doing anything wrong. Now Laura has a flat that smells of paint, a sulking fig tree and a parcel waiting on the kitchen worktop while the rain lashes the window.
Short story · Couples
Low and Slow
Oliver has been reading about the prostate. A lot. He even has a folder. Now he wants to find out what it is he can almost reach – together with Matt.
Short story · Solo
No Hurry
For twenty years Mark has looked after everything and everyone except himself. Then he moves into a one-bedroom flat with bare walls – and finds a parcel he doesn’t quite know what to do with.
Short story · Couples
The Anniversary
Kate and Tom have been together for fourteen years and still find it easier to laugh in bed than almost anyone they know. Tonight they’re opening the parcel they bought together three weeks ago.
Short story · Couples
The Cabin by the Lake
Claire and Mark have been married for fifteen years and know each other’s habits by heart. One weekend by a lake, with no children and no schedule, they discover they had forgotten there was more to learn.
Short story · Trains
The Night Train
Two strangers, a two-berth sleeper and twelve hours through a snowy landscape. She has a violin that isn’t allowed on the luggage rack, he has a stone in his pocket – and neither of them intends to sleep.
Short story · Couples
The Remote in Lisbon
Lucy and James have been together for nine years and know almost everything about each other. Almost. A dinner in a foreign city, a little magnet under her dress and a word that means stop.
Short story · Couples
The Terms
Jess has hidden a parcel behind the glaze jars in her studio. Kate opens it, goes quiet for a long moment – and then reaches for a pen.