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.
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged service provider and client, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 11 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: Solstice Scribe, Route of Cinder and Rain Writer. Readers usually start with “The Ashtray Accordion” and “The Guillotine Game Over”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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.
Barry shut down the shake-out belt on Separation 3 at 11:30 in the morning.
Alison Clarke was thirty-six years old, and she still owned a scribe she'd bought at a county fair fifteen years ago.
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.
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…
*This one came from the idea of putting a lifeguard on dry land and watching the water metaphors dry up.
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Ollie Metcalf is sixty-two years old and he will tell anybody who stands still long enough that he built The Low Note with his own two…