The Electrician's Confession
The Church Street Barbershop had no business being open at ten on a Tuesday night.
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged body worship, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 14 to 20 minutes. Writers to know: Heather Fiction, Route of Cinder and The Maple Garden. Readers usually start with “The Electrician's Confession” and “The Guillotine Game Over”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The Church Street Barbershop had no business being open at ten on a Tuesday night.
Barry shut down the shake-out belt on Separation 3 at 11:30 in the morning.
Jenni Walters was thirty-three years old, and she was awake at four thirty in the morning because of a plant.
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Jury duty is where people go to feel bad about themselves in a government building.
Brianna Sampson had been a nightmare for several days, and she knew it.
The truck died halfway between nowhere and Sparrow, Texas, and I sat there in the cab with my thumb on the phone like an idiot for a good…