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…
Raw and blunt humor & satire stories
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged raw and blunt, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: The Rust Outline, Rain Ticket and Heather Fiction. Readers usually start with “Bow Saw Matinee” and “Karaoke Emergency Contact”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Raw and blunt humor & satire stories, ranked by readers
01 02 Karaoke Emergency Contact
Angelina was forty-four years old and had been flying commercial routes for twenty years, and she had never once lied to her first officer.
03 The Lease Clause
Jenni Walters was thirty-three years old, and she was awake at four thirty in the morning because of a plant.
04 The Bell Tower Button War
Harvey Bowen was thirty-four years old, and he had been losing to Calvin Fitzgerald for sixteen years.
05 The Fitting Room Dare
Craig Atkinson had covered forty-one bridal expos.
06 The Gratitude Audit
Ivy was twenty-nine and she paid a woman named Donnie eighty dollars a session to tell her things like "you are blocking your own…
07 The Vinyl Lesson
Sarah pulls her Honda into the gravel lot at the Rustic Relic Antique Mall at 10:40 on a Saturday morning, and she sits there a minute…
08 The Leech Farmer's Debt
Christy was fifty-four years old, and she had learned, somewhere around her fortieth birthday, that the word "favor" was a trap.
09 The Accordion Incident
Julianne pulled into the bookstore parking lot at four forty, which gave her twenty minutes before the place closed for good.
10 Root Canal and Riffs
Hanna pulled the last rubber dam off the patient and stepped back from the chair.
11 Garage Sale of the Damned
Nicola had both hands on the wheel and her eyes on the road, which she felt was the bare minimum, and yet Shay still found things to say…
12 The Pink Tractor Pull
*This one came from a deep love of small-town absurdity and the way pride makes us do ridiculous things.
13 Jury Duty Therapy
Jury duty is where people go to feel bad about themselves in a government building.