The Lantern Wreckers
I rolled into Bagdad on a Thursday with about forty dollars to my name and a plan to leave with more.
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged stockings and lingerie, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 13 to 20 minutes. Writers to know: The Garnet Writer, The Steel Highway and Spark of Stone. Readers usually start with “The Lantern Wreckers” and “Keg Ritual at Seda”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
I rolled into Bagdad on a Thursday with about forty dollars to my name and a plan to leave with more.
Khalid Conway was thirty-six years old, and he had been laying hedge stakes on the helipad for two hours when Oliver Reimer came storming…
Dalton Carlisle was fifty-five years old and had been lost in strip malls for twenty years.
Ray Mata got out of his Corolla outside the warehouse on Wythe Avenue and checked his teeth in the rearview mirror.
The plan was simple, which should have been my first warning.
The first blast hit at 5:47 in the morning.
I want to tell you I walked into that tea house with dignity.
I want to start by saying I'm forty-two years old and I have spent most of those years being sensible, which is a polite way of saying…
Calvin Ford had been mopping the fellowship hall floor of the First Community Church of Maple Hill for eleven years, and in all that time…