Bow Saw Matinee
The rain had been coming down for two days straight and the gravel behind the bar had turned into this gray soup that pooled around the…
Leather humor & satire stories
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged leather, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 17 minutes. Writers to know: Thistle Quota, Rain Writer and The Maple Garden. Readers usually start with “Bow Saw Matinee” and “The Ashtray Accordion”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Leather humor & satire stories, ranked by readers
01 02 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.
03 Dry Dock
*This one came from the idea of putting a lifeguard on dry land and watching the water metaphors dry up.
04 The Apron Strings
My name is Naomi, I'm thirty-three, and I fix transmissions for a living.
05 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.
06 Boring Mill Breakdown
Marion had told herself she was going to spend Friday night on her couch eating cereal out of the box and feeling sorry for herself, and…
07 The Catering Confession
The quiches slid again on the turn.
08 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…
09 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…
10 The Return Policy
I am thirty-eight years old and I spent last Saturday being yelled at by a man in a foam tent hat, and that is somehow not even the worst…