After Midnight: A Love Story
By Gary Leslie Publishing
Categories: Fiction, Drama
After Midnight is a mature romance audio drama from The Midnight Collection, by Gary Leslie Publishing. Season One: The Arrangement. Simone Bennett is forty-four, divorced, and very good at being fine. On a rainy Manhattan Thursday she takes her usual stool at The Hour, a private supper club — and finds a stranger two stools away who asks her a question she should never have answered. No last names. No numbers. No promises. Just Thursdays, and the space between two stools getting smaller. Some stories are better heard after dark. © 2026 Gary Leslie Publishing. All rights reserved.
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Recent episodes
- After Midnight
Six months later, the building opens — on a Thursday. The process is finished, the rules are finished, there is nothing left to disclose. She asks for his number in public, in a lit room, in front of three hundred witnesses. No napkin. No rules. The Season One finale.
- Walk Away
She will not bill her wanting to other people's accounts — so she ends it at the table, in person, with her whole name on the goodbye. His one permitted move: the doorway. He counts her steps the whole way to the corner, and does not follow. That was her rule.
- The Price of Privacy
Presentation day. The agenda speaks his name across the table — Cole Restoration — while he reads hers on the seating plan. Neither of them lied; the privacy they both chose made this inevitable. Every professional price gets named out loud, and Friday morning, she sends the disclosure.
- Nothing Casual
The chairs are stacked, the sign is turned, and the arrears are confessed at forehead distance: she is in love with him, in arrears, both, at once. The last fraction of the inch is hers to spend — and she spends it. It is nothing casual. It never was.
- The Other Woman
She ordered him early, in the open, where she could find him waiting. He is — and the woman seated across from him, hand knowing his arm, is Claire. His past, in gold. She brings testimony, not warning — and one detail about doors he watches now that he never watched for her.
- What He Didn't Tell Her
He has never once not come — eight Thursdays, Daniel says. She has only been his Thursday five times. Simone learns their first meeting was an accident only on her side, and audits exactly what that costs.
- A Different Kind of Night
She breaks her own arrangement for one night and takes him uptown, to the street she never showed her husband — the one thing she kept. What she tells him there costs more than every rule on the napkin. And his phone keeps buzzing.
- The Rules
Six rules, written on a cocktail napkin in her handwriting. Thursdays only. No names. No numbers. No one else. And an ending either of them can invoke by simply not showing up. The arrangement lasts exactly as long as it takes to write it down.
- No Names, No Promises
She told herself she was only keeping a Thursday. She chose the dress anyway. He was already there — and this time, there is no empty stool left between them.
- The Woman at the Bar
Simone Bennett did not go to The Hour looking for anything. She went for one drink, in the rain, on a Thursday that was supposed to end like every other Thursday. Then the man two stools down asked her a question she should never have answered.
- After Midnight — Official Trailer
A supper club above the rain. A stranger two stools away. A woman who has decided she is done wanting anything. The official trailer for After Midnight, Season One: The Arrangement — an original audio romance from The Midnight Collection, Gary Leslie Publishing. Some stories are better heard after…
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