The Gondola Rules
The rules were typed up on a napkin.
Oil and massage humor & satire stories
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged oil and massage, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 14 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: Spark of Stone, The Steel Highway and The Maple Garden. Readers usually start with “The Gondola Rules” and “The Brass Telescope”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Oil and massage humor & satire stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Brass Telescope
The bridge had been a joke for years, and then it wasn't.
03 The Chicken Tax Incident
I owed Cherise a favor.
04 Pigeon in the Bamboo
Magnus Swenson watches his wife's taillights disappear down the county road for the fourth evening this week, and the familiar knot…
05 The Pour Decision
Tuesday nights at The Rusty Tap are slow, and I like it that way.
06 The Last Ferry Out
I'm twenty-eight years old, I have a doctorate in anthropology, and last Saturday I spent seven hours hiding behind a lifeboat on a ferry…
07 The Theremin Talent Show
I haven't seen Jasper Webster in ten years, which is a thing I keep having to re-say to myself while the ferry bumps toward Frøya.
08 Drawbridge Blues
The drawbridge is stuck open and I am stuck on the wrong side of my own courage, which honestly feels like a more serious mechanical…
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 The Grounds
Roberta had been on her feet since nine that morning, and by a quarter past five her knees had filed their usual protest.
11 Scan, Swipe, Repeat
Angela was thirty-four years old, and she had learned in four months that grocery shopping with Reginald was a two-hour affair no matter…