Mud Run Muddle
I finished the night shoot at four in the morning and decided I had earned something stupid.
Strangers humor & satire stories
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged strangers, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: Route of Cinder, Thistle Quota and The Steel Highway. Readers usually start with “Mud Run Muddle” and “The Bell Ringer's Last Call”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Strangers humor & satire stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Bell Ringer's Last Call
The ad said "night shift, rural location, must be comfortable with livestock proximity."
03 The Sundial Shift
Tina was twenty-seven and had never once been inside the locomotive wash shed behind the dock.
04 The Lieutenant and the Baker
Walter Hartman had been forty-two years old for three months, and he still wasn't used to it.
05 Takedown at Take Two
"You've got to be kidding me," Murray said.
06 The S'mores Incident
Well, here I was, thirty-four years old, a kindergarten teacher with twenty-six glue sticks and no dates, standing in the Spruce Hollow…
07 The last store on earth
The plan was simple, which should have been my first warning.
08 The Deposition Drafter
Shelby was thirty-four years old and she had the malt spiel down to a science.
09 The Ruined Torta
*I wanted to write a revenge story where the weapon is genuine surprise, not cruelty.
10 The Noise Next Door
I was thirty-four years old, a night-shift nurse with a savings account, a cactus named Dennis, and no interest whatsoever in other…
11 Jury Duty Therapy
Jury duty is where people go to feel bad about themselves in a government building.