The Dock Timber Conch
Alana woke up with a dead arm and pine needles everywhere.
Breathless and eager humor & satire stories
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged breathless and eager, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 16 minutes. Writers to know: River Tale, Opal Prose and Rain Writer. Readers usually start with “The Dock Timber Conch” and “The Bell Ringer's Last Call”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Breathless and eager humor & satire stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Bell Ringer's Last Call
The ad said "night shift, rural location, must be comfortable with livestock proximity."
03 The Thunder Sheet
Tracey Lincoln here, thirty-four years old, and technically the most responsible person in Mohale's Hoek this weekend.
04 The Layover and the Endpaper
Katherine Cummings was thirty-four years old and had been awake for twenty hours.
05 The Doorframe Chalk-Up
Every Jenkins Chalk-Up starts the same way.
06 Drawbridge Blues
The drawbridge is stuck open and I am stuck on the wrong side of my own courage, which honestly feels like a more serious mechanical…
07 Turbine and Tux
The tuxedo hung in my locker like a promise I'd made while slightly drunk on spite.
08 The Catering Confession
The quiches slid again on the turn.
09 My Colon Went Rogue
I was crouched behind a dumpster in the loading alley of the Inner Bloom Wellness Retreat when I remembered the fake mustache.
10 The Return Policy
I am thirty-eight years old and I spent last Saturday being yelled at by a man in a foam tent hat, and that is somehow not even the worst…
11 Shipshape Shenanigans
Rhys had the invitation in his hand.
12 The Grievance Choir
My name is Adrian Banks, I am forty-six years old, and until eight months ago I was a museum curator with a reputation, a pension, and a…
13 Cowboy Boots and Karaoke
*This one's for everyone who ever tried to learn something new and ended up with more bruises than progress.