The Ashtray Accordion
Tia was thirty-four years old, and she was bored out of her skull, which was the only reason she said yes to any of this.
Funny and chatty humor & satire stories
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged funny and chatty, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: Thistle Quota, The Maple Garden and Raven Coda. Readers usually start with “The Ashtray Accordion” and “The Horrible Ex-Exchange”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Funny and chatty humor & satire stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Horrible Ex-Exchange
I'm Isa, I'm twenty-five, and I'm in Lisbon because I'm petty.
03 The Diamond Point Favor
Alison Clarke was thirty-six years old, and she still owned a scribe she'd bought at a county fair fifteen years ago.
04 The Goat Cheese Brine Shuffle
Randi McAllister, thirty-three years old and covered in goat cheese brine before noon, stood at the workbench and stared down her boyfriend.
05 The Brass Telescope
The bridge had been a joke for years, and then it wasn't.
06 The last store on earth
The plan was simple, which should have been my first warning.
07 The Crank of Her Affection
Gino came back from the chinking job with mortar dust in his hair and a bad mood in his chest.
08 Brittany Bees and the Snow Globe
Brittany Rees had lived in Dunton long enough to know one thing for sure.
09 The Eggplant Gambit
*I wrote this because I wanted to see a married couple be absolutely feral for each other in the most ridiculous possible setting.
10 Dare You to Blink
Johan came through the door of the Sandbox Diner at seven sharp, took off his cap, and scanned the room the way he always did in a new…
11 The Choir Closet Incident
Calvin Ford had been mopping the fellowship hall floor of the First Community Church of Maple Hill for eleven years, and in all that time…
12 Booth Bitch
Katherine Redding, twenty-eight and six months out of the worst breakup of her life, had been standing behind the state-park recruitment…
13 The Crush Bet
I was about halfway up the 5.10c on the east wall when I saw her.
14 The Watering Bet
Barney mopped the archive floor on a Tuesday.
15 Rest Stop Refill
I'm forty-three today.