The Guillotine Game Over
Barry shut down the shake-out belt on Separation 3 at 11:30 in the morning.
Matter-of-fact humor & satire stories
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged matter-of-fact, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 11 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: Cinder Session, Onyx Prologue and Raven Coda. Readers usually start with “The Guillotine Game Over” and “The Engine Room Typewriter”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Matter-of-fact humor & satire stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Engine Room Typewriter
The typewriter sat on a workbench under the one working bulb in the engine room of the old naval ship.
03 The Night Audit
I've worked the night audit at the Thornwood Inn for fifteen years.
04 Takedown at Take Two
"You've got to be kidding me," Murray said.
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 The Great Sock Drawer Gambit
Burt Aldous, fifty-four years old and retired from the meat counter he still missed, had hidden his winning lottery ticket in the sock…
07 The Dewey Decimal Debacle
Pam had been married to Shannon for over fifteen years, and in that time she had given her a series of memorable gifts, including one…
08 The Pour Decision
Tuesday nights at The Rusty Tap are slow, and I like it that way.
09 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…
10 The Noise Next Door
I was thirty-four years old, a night-shift nurse with a savings account, a cactus named Dennis, and no interest whatsoever in other…
11 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…
12 Ghosting the Baker
My name is Staci, I'm thirty-six years old, and I bake pastries for a living.
13 The Sump Pump Warning Light
Laney Hobbs was thirty-three years old and she had been delivering mail in Silves for four years, and in all that time she had never once…
14 One Bed, No Privacy
The truck died halfway between nowhere and Sparrow, Texas, and I sat there in the cab with my thumb on the phone like an idiot for a good…