The Confocal Compromise
Ambrose checks the hygrometer for the fourth time in ten minutes.
Food play humor & satire stories
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged food play, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: Rain Writer, Blue Spell and Rain Signal. Readers usually start with “The Confocal Compromise” and “The Drywall Incident”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Food play humor & satire stories, ranked by readers
01 02 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…
03 The Night Audit
I've worked the night audit at the Thornwood Inn for fifteen years.
04 The Water Tank Waltz
The power went out at 7:40 on a Thursday evening in August.
05 The Special Sauce Situation
I'm Javier Reeves, thirty-four years old, and I've been the nice guy at La Cocina de la Playa for six years.
06 The Gratitude Audit
Ivy was twenty-nine and she paid a woman named Donnie eighty dollars a session to tell her things like "you are blocking your own…
07 The Vinyl Lesson
Sarah pulls her Honda into the gravel lot at the Rustic Relic Antique Mall at 10:40 on a Saturday morning, and she sits there a minute…
08 The Leech Farmer's Debt
Christy was fifty-four years old, and she had learned, somewhere around her fortieth birthday, that the word "favor" was a trap.
09 Thermometer at Dawn
Lizzie Marsh was forty-three years old, and she had baked competitively for exactly three years, which meant she had been doing it roughly…
10 The Crush Bet
I was about halfway up the 5.10c on the east wall when I saw her.
11 The Nanny's Briefs
Elias Strand was thirty-four years old and he was losing his mind in a beige room.