The Off-Season Incident
My name's Debbie Weaver.
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged feet, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 13 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: Rain Ticket, The Rust Outline and The Ridge Corner. Readers usually start with “The Off-Season Incident” and “The Diamond Point Favor”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
My name's Debbie Weaver.
Alison Clarke was thirty-six years old, and she still owned a scribe she'd bought at a county fair fifteen years ago.
Okay, so, I'm twenty-eight years old and I like to think of myself as a rational person.
*I wanted to write a revenge story where the weapon is genuine surprise, not cruelty.
Julianne pulled into the bookstore parking lot at four forty, which gave her twenty minutes before the place closed for good.
The tuxedo hung in my locker like a promise I'd made while slightly drunk on spite.
Hanna pulled the last rubber dam off the patient and stepped back from the chair.
*This one started with the image of a retirement party gone sideways because the ex shows up with a clipboard and a grudge.
Tasha had been on the ferry for eleven minutes and she was already annoyed.