Dispatch Silence
Rory Pendleton pushed open the door of the Gongju dispatch center at dusk, snow dusting the shoulders of his jacket.
Coworkers humor & satire stories
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged coworkers, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 11 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: The Hollow Glimpse, The Rust Outline and Raven Coda. Readers usually start with “Dispatch Silence” and “The Dock Timber Conch”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Coworkers humor & satire stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Dock Timber Conch
Alana woke up with a dead arm and pine needles everywhere.
03 The Lease Clause
Jenni Walters was thirty-three years old, and she was awake at four thirty in the morning because of a plant.
04 The Drywall Incident
I'm thirty-four years old and I sell commercial flooring for a living, which means I have spent the last eleven years of my life in places…
05 The Night Audit
I've worked the night audit at the Thornwood Inn for fifteen years.
06 The Auditor's Chaos
Edmund Prickett was thirty-eight years old, and he believed in Tuesday.
07 Costume Party Fallout
I was in the back of Aya's bookstore moving a trunk of old theater costumes because she asked me to, and because that's what friends do.
08 The Fairground Flasher
My birthday was coming up, or rather Caren's was, and I was sitting in the back of the ambulance doing nothing for once.
09 The Bosun's Confession
Leah Hodges is twenty-eight years old, and she has decided, somewhere around the fourth pallet of the night shift, that she is the least…
10 The Last Art of Wrangling Geoffrey
Gayle Duffy was thirty-six years old, and she had never in her adult life imagined she would be scrubbing dried acrylic out of a jar of…
11 A Frayed Wire and a Prayer
Burt Rosenberg parked the Land Rover outside the plaster mill at six forty on a Friday evening and sat in the driver's seat for a full…
12 Ghosting the Baker
My name is Staci, I'm thirty-six years old, and I bake pastries for a living.
13 The Sump Pump Warning Light
Laney Hobbs was thirty-three years old and she had been delivering mail in Silves for four years, and in all that time she had never once…