The Confocal Compromise
Ambrose checks the hygrometer for the fourth time in ten minutes.
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Humor & Satire stories. Humor & Satire stories, from quick reads to long series. Reads run 12 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: The Steel Highway, Delta Contour and Thistle Quota. Readers usually start with “The Confocal Compromise” and “Dispatch Silence”. Ranked by how many readers finish them. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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01 02 Dispatch Silence
Rory Pendleton pushed open the door of the Gongju dispatch center at dusk, snow dusting the shoulders of his jacket.
03 Bow Saw Matinee
The rain had been coming down for two days straight and the gravel behind the bar had turned into this gray soup that pooled around the…
04 The Dock Timber Conch
Alana woke up with a dead arm and pine needles everywhere.
05 The Ashtray Accordion
Tia was thirty-four years old, and she was bored out of her skull, which was the only reason she said yes to any of this.
06 Mud Run Muddle
I finished the night shoot at four in the morning and decided I had earned something stupid.
07 The Off-Season Incident
My name's Debbie Weaver.
08 The Horrible Ex-Exchange
I'm Isa, I'm twenty-five, and I'm in Lisbon because I'm petty.
09 The Electrician's Confession
The Church Street Barbershop had no business being open at ten on a Tuesday night.
10 The Bell Ringer's Last Call
The ad said "night shift, rural location, must be comfortable with livestock proximity."
11 The Thunder Sheet
Tracey Lincoln here, thirty-four years old, and technically the most responsible person in Mohale's Hoek this weekend.
12 The Gondola Rules
The rules were typed up on a napkin.
13 The Lantern Wreckers
I rolled into Bagdad on a Thursday with about forty dollars to my name and a plan to leave with more.
14 The Guillotine Game Over
Barry shut down the shake-out belt on Separation 3 at 11:30 in the morning.
15 The Diamond Point Favor
Alison Clarke was thirty-six years old, and she still owned a scribe she'd bought at a county fair fifteen years ago.
16 The Goat Cheese Brine Shuffle
Randi McAllister, thirty-three years old and covered in goat cheese brine before noon, stood at the workbench and stared down her boyfriend.
17 Karaoke Emergency Contact
Angelina was forty-four years old and had been flying commercial routes for twenty years, and she had never once lied to her first officer.
18 The Lease Clause
Jenni Walters was thirty-three years old, and she was awake at four thirty in the morning because of a plant.
19 The Brass Telescope
The bridge had been a joke for years, and then it wasn't.
20 The Bell Tower Button War
Harvey Bowen was thirty-four years old, and he had been losing to Calvin Fitzgerald for sixteen years.
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