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  "title": "SparkBang",
  "home_page_url": "https://sparkbang.com/",
  "feed_url": "https://sparkbang.com/feed.json",
  "description": "SparkBang — an adults-only publication of sensual literary short fiction. One short piece every night, a growing catalog. Suggestive, not graphic. 21+.",
  "language": "en",
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/close-work/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/close-work/",
      "title": "Close Work",
      "summary": "He said only that he trusted no one else's hands with tomorrow's version of himself — and she still hadn't thrown out the good scissors.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-23T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-last-train/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-last-train/",
      "title": "The Last Train",
      "summary": "The board kept pushing his arrival back a minute at a time, and she let it, because a minute was a length of time she still knew how to hold.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-17T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/kitchen-light/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/kitchen-light/",
      "title": "Kitchen Light",
      "summary": "The house had never been this quiet. Neither had they, once — and they'd forgotten how to fill it.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-16T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-long-way/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-long-way/",
      "title": "The Long Way",
      "summary": "Sundays were for the dog. Nobody had agreed the walk home would take an hour.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-15T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/wool/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/wool/",
      "title": "Wool",
      "summary": "He’d come for the coat. She’d spent four winters deciding it was hers.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/small-hours/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/small-hours/",
      "title": "Small Hours",
      "summary": "The streaming menu kept asking if they were still watching, and neither of them reached for the remote to answer it.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/daylight/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/daylight/",
      "title": "Daylight",
      "summary": "The street named what the night had kept quiet, and neither of them minded.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-waterline/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-waterline/",
      "title": "The Waterline",
      "summary": "She let the candle burn down to its last inch before she got in, and stayed exactly as long as it lasted.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-hour-before/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-hour-before/",
      "title": "The Hour Before",
      "summary": "She dressed an hour early on purpose — this was the part of the evening she refused to spend before she had to.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-20T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-driveway/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-driveway/",
      "title": "The Driveway",
      "summary": "The taillights went around the bend, and for the first time in eighteen years the driveway had nothing left to wait for.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-19T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/heat-lightning/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/heat-lightning/",
      "title": "Heat Lightning",
      "summary": "The power had failed at eleven, and by midnight the only light left came from a sky that never bothered to thunder.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-18T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/storm-windows/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/storm-windows/",
      "title": "Storm Windows",
      "summary": "The window over the lake never caught on the first try — not once in eleven years, and not tonight either.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-17T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-repair/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-repair/",
      "title": "The Repair",
      "summary": "She called because the window was stuck — and because at eleven on a Wednesday, she couldn't think of who else to want.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-13T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/tuesdays/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/tuesdays/",
      "title": "Tuesdays",
      "summary": "He didn't say her name — he just set a drink beside hers on the rail, gin without asking, and stood close enough that his warmth cut through four years.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-12T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/still/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/still/",
      "title": "Still",
      "summary": "He was already awake when she opened her eyes, and neither of them reached for their phones.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-10T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-deep-end/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-deep-end/",
      "title": "The Deep End",
      "summary": "She saw him before he saw her — and had exactly three seconds to decide what to do with that.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-garden-door/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-garden-door/",
      "title": "The Garden Door",
      "summary": "They stood outside the party's noise, close enough that waiting felt like its own kind of touching.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-08T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-line/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-line/",
      "title": "The Line",
      "summary": "She had a reason — something practical — but the moment he said her name, the reason became the least interesting thing on the line.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-07T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-other-one/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-other-one/",
      "title": "The Other One",
      "summary": "He found it on the nightstand before she woke, and left it where it was.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-06T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/two-blocks/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/two-blocks/",
      "title": "Two Blocks",
      "summary": "She knew what he meant and what he didn't mean, and she got in the car.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-05T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/already-awake/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/already-awake/",
      "title": "Already Awake",
      "summary": "She knew he was awake—had known it for over an hour—and neither of them had said a word, which was its own kind of conversation.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-04T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-drawer/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-drawer/",
      "title": "The Drawer",
      "summary": "She reached for the zipper herself, and he said there was coffee, and neither of them meant what they said.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-02T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-overhang/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-overhang/",
      "title": "The Overhang",
      "summary": "He didn't see her until he was already beside her, and by then it was too late for either of them to pretend.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/area-code/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/area-code/",
      "title": "Area Code",
      "summary": "She hadn't deleted his number — just renamed it, as if the phone wouldn't know.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/north-light/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/north-light/",
      "title": "North Light",
      "summary": "He had not been allowed to see the painting until now, and she understood, brush still in hand, that she had been waiting for exactly this.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-29T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/three-blocks/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/three-blocks/",
      "title": "Three Blocks",
      "summary": "She had chosen the table nearest the window for the view, not for company.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-28T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/muscle-memory/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/muscle-memory/",
      "title": "Muscle Memory",
      "summary": "His whole body was a familiar territory she'd lost the right to cross.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-27T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/morrison/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/morrison/",
      "title": "Morrison",
      "summary": "Eight years, and he still looked up before she reached him — some peripheral awareness of her that had outlasted everything else.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-26T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/what-the-light-does/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/what-the-light-does/",
      "title": "What the Light Does",
      "summary": "Her shoes were in her hand before she remembered she didn't want to go.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-25T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-interval/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-interval/",
      "title": "The Interval",
      "summary": "They had agreed on dinner, nothing more — and both of them knew exactly what that meant.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/still-life/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/still-life/",
      "title": "Still Life",
      "summary": "He walked in at ten past nine, and she discovered she had been waiting.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-22T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-wedding/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-wedding/",
      "title": "The Wedding",
      "summary": "They’d sat us at the same table. Someone, somewhere, had thought that was kind.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-22T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/twelve-years/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/twelve-years/",
      "title": "Twelve Years",
      "summary": "Twelve years in, he still asked. That was the thing about him — he still asked.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-22T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-last-box/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-last-box/",
      "title": "The Last Box",
      "summary": "There was one box left, and they both knew it was never really about the box.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-22T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/dont-tell-me/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/dont-tell-me/",
      "title": "Don’t Tell Me",
      "summary": "She had her hand on his chest. Two fingers. The lightest pressure possible.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/atlanta/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/atlanta/",
      "title": "Atlanta",
      "summary": "The train had been delayed an hour by the time she sat down across from him.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/morning/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/morning/",
      "title": "Morning",
      "summary": "She made coffee in his kitchen like she lived there. Maybe she did. Maybe she always had.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/three-buttons/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/three-buttons/",
      "title": "Three Buttons",
      "summary": "The whole dinner could have been a fire and we wouldn’t have moved.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/reunion/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/reunion/",
      "title": "Reunion",
      "summary": "He recognized her shoulders before her face — the way the air around her had been carved out specifically.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://sparkbang.com/the-wait/",
      "url": "https://sparkbang.com/the-wait/",
      "title": "The Wait",
      "summary": "She told him to wait. Just wait. The kitchen island was cold against her palms.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}