Cheat

Everything incriminating is in writing

Cheating is the genre chat fiction was waiting for. Every message is evidence, every thread is discoverable, and the reader knows from the first chapter that the record being created is the thing that will eventually be found. No prose equivalent gives you that for free.

The stories collected here divide by what they are actually about. Some are about the affair and treat the discovery as an ending. Others start after the discovery and are about the negotiation that follows, which is where this category overlaps with Cuck and Hotwife and where the archive’s longer serials live. A third kind, smaller but consistently well rated, is written entirely from the position of the person who has not been told yet.

Around five chapters per story on average, with several hundred entries to choose from. Cheating sexting stories reward reading in order more than most categories here — the reveals are usually planted early, in a message that looked like nothing at the time.