The Bell Ringer's Last Call
The ad said "night shift, rural location, must be comfortable with livestock proximity."
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged chastity, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 11 to 16 minutes. Writers to know: Raven Coda, Opal Prose and Quartz Bridge. Readers usually start with “The Bell Ringer's Last Call” and “The Goat Cheese Brine Shuffle”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The ad said "night shift, rural location, must be comfortable with livestock proximity."
Randi McAllister, thirty-three years old and covered in goat cheese brine before noon, stood at the workbench and stared down her boyfriend.
Gino came back from the chinking job with mortar dust in his hair and a bad mood in his chest.
Paige sat at the counter with a toe tag in one hand and a Sharpie in the other.
*This one's pure comedy of ego and a couple of show-offs who found a way to keep showing off.
My name is Staci, I'm thirty-six years old, and I bake pastries for a living.
Barney mopped the archive floor on a Tuesday.
Gregor Wakefield was forty-four years old and sitting in a Corolla outside a weather station on the top of a hill in rural New Zealand…
I'm forty-three today.