Playlist for the Dead Air
Ray Mata got out of his Corolla outside the warehouse on Wythe Avenue and checked his teeth in the rearview mirror.
Exes humor & satire stories
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged exes, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 14 to 19 minutes. Writers to know: The Ridge Corner, The Garnet Writer and The Maple Garden. Readers usually start with “Playlist for the Dead Air” and “Bridge Painter for the Night”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Exes humor & satire stories, ranked by readers
01 02 Bridge Painter for the Night
So here's how my Tuesday night started: me, a green plastic watering can, and the glass door of the Plumco call center lobby, which I have…
03 The Layover and the Endpaper
Katherine Cummings was thirty-four years old and had been awake for twenty hours.
04 The Theremin Talent Show
I haven't seen Jasper Webster in ten years, which is a thing I keep having to re-say to myself while the ferry bumps toward Frøya.
05 Sweat Equity
You can tell a lot about a man's life by what he's hosing down on a Tuesday.
06 The HR File on Leela Malone
*This one started with the image of a retirement party gone sideways because the ex shows up with a clipboard and a grudge.
07 Birthday at the Loading Dock
Rochelle was forty minutes into her double shift when Sophie came clomping across the loading dock with two coffees and a grin that meant…
08 Salsa Revenge
*This one came from watching bad dancers in a cramped apartment and thinking about how lessons can turn into something else when the walls…