Mud Run Muddle
I finished the night shoot at four in the morning and decided I had earned something stupid.
Playful and teasing humor & satire stories
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged playful and teasing, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 14 to 19 minutes. Writers to know: The Juniper Harbor, Rain Ticket and The Garnet Writer. Readers usually start with “Mud Run Muddle” and “The Electrician's Confession”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Playful and teasing humor & satire stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Electrician's Confession
The Church Street Barbershop had no business being open at ten on a Tuesday night.
03 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…
04 Crop Dusting Confessions
Floyd rolled his truck through the rusted gate of the Bar None Ranch at eight in the morning, gravel popping under the tires, and there…
05 The Roughing Curve
Otis Nichols was twenty-nine years old and he had driven five hours to stand in front of a smoking hut in the middle of nowhere, Ontario.
06 Bridge Painter for the Night
So here's how my Tuesday night started: me, a green plastic watering can, and the glass door of the Plumco call center lobby, which I have…
07 Costume Party Fallout
I was in the back of Aya's bookstore moving a trunk of old theater costumes because she asked me to, and because that's what friends do.
08 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.
09 The Trick Showdown
Me and Charlene got to the park at nine in the morning, which was earlier than I wanted to be up on a Saturday, but I had a plan and plans…
10 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.
11 Sweat Equity
You can tell a lot about a man's life by what he's hosing down on a Tuesday.
12 The Ruined Torta
*I wanted to write a revenge story where the weapon is genuine surprise, not cruelty.
13 The Ten-Touch Rule
Sylvie Malone was thirty-four years old and had been drinking alone at The Shady Elm for exactly forty minutes when Calvin Dunbar slid…
14 Downward Spiral
Lizzy Massey was thirty-two years old and she had a plan, and the plan was to get fired.
15 The Audit Cuddle Protocol
My name is Matt, I'm thirty-four, and two weeks ago I typed a single wrong number into a spreadsheet and now my whole life smells like…