The Dock Timber Conch
Alana woke up with a dead arm and pine needles everywhere.
Uniforms humor & satire stories
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged uniforms, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 16 minutes. Writers to know: The Steel Highway, Onyx Prologue and The Garnet Writer. Readers usually start with “The Dock Timber Conch” and “The Horrible Ex-Exchange”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Uniforms humor & satire stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Horrible Ex-Exchange
I'm Isa, I'm twenty-five, and I'm in Lisbon because I'm petty.
03 The Sundial Shift
Tina was twenty-seven and had never once been inside the locomotive wash shed behind the dock.
04 The Engine Room Typewriter
The typewriter sat on a workbench under the one working bulb in the engine room of the old naval ship.
05 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.
06 Takedown at Take Two
"You've got to be kidding me," Murray said.
07 The Layover and the Endpaper
Katherine Cummings was thirty-four years old and had been awake for twenty hours.
08 Sweat Equity
You can tell a lot about a man's life by what he's hosing down on a Tuesday.
09 Dare You to Blink
Johan came through the door of the Sandbox Diner at seven sharp, took off his cap, and scanned the room the way he always did in a new…
10 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…
11 The Pink Tractor Pull
*This one came from a deep love of small-town absurdity and the way pride makes us do ridiculous things.
12 The Grievance Choir
My name is Adrian Banks, I am forty-six years old, and until eight months ago I was a museum curator with a reputation, a pension, and a…