The Off-Season Incident
My name's Debbie Weaver.
Stories in Humor & Satire tagged warm and nostalgic, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 11 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: Delta Contour, Steel Whisper and Route of Cinder. Readers usually start with “The Off-Season Incident” and “The Gondola Rules”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
My name's Debbie Weaver.
The rules were typed up on a napkin.
Walter Hartman had been forty-two years old for three months, and he still wasn't used to it.
I owed Cherise a favor.
My name is Naomi, I'm thirty-three, and I fix transmissions for a living.
Well, here I was, thirty-four years old, a kindergarten teacher with twenty-six glue sticks and no dates, standing in the Spruce Hollow…
Leah Hodges is twenty-eight years old, and she has decided, somewhere around the fourth pallet of the night shift, that she is the least…
Gayle Duffy was thirty-six years old, and she had never in her adult life imagined she would be scrubbing dried acrylic out of a jar of…
Tasha had been on the ferry for eleven minutes and she was already annoyed.