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The Gardener's Cottage
Mature & Silver · EN · 2 parts · Ongoing · updated 2026-11-07
A retired English teacher rents a gardener's cottage on an Umbrian estate and the estate's old gardener refuses to retire from the lemon trees. A drowsy, fragrant two-part mature romance of terracotta, shade and a long lunch.
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“The Gardener's Cottage” is a Mature & Silver story for adults, told in 2 parts and about 4 minutes of reading in total. Every character is 18 or older and every encounter is consensual. Start with Part 1 and use the Next part button at the end of each part, or pick a part from the list below.
- Part 1: Lemon Trees. Frances rents a gardener's cottage in Umbria for a year. Arturo, the estate's old gardener, still tends the lemon trees outside and apologises for his shears.
- Part 2: The Long Lunch. A long lunch under the vines turns into the afternoon, then the evening. As the cicadas fall quiet and the lemon trees darken, the gardener finally lays down his shears.
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