Keg Ritual at Seda
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…
Humor & Satire stories
Humor & Satire stories. Humor & Satire stories, from quick reads to long series. Reads run 12 to 18 minutes. Writers to know: The Steel Highway, Delta Contour and Thistle Quota. Readers usually start with “The Confocal Compromise” and “Dispatch Silence”. Ranked by how many readers finish them. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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21 22 The Drywall Incident
I'm thirty-four years old and I sell commercial flooring for a living, which means I have spent the last eleven years of my life in places…
23 Firewatch and the Piano Run
Tomorrow I turn forty-four.
24 Crop Dusting Confessions
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…
25 The Sundial Shift
Tina was twenty-seven and had never once been inside the locomotive wash shed behind the dock.
26 The Lieutenant and the Baker
Walter Hartman had been forty-two years old for three months, and he still wasn't used to it.
27 The Seamstress's Mistake
Dalton Carlisle was fifty-five years old and had been lost in strip malls for twenty years.
28 The Grateful Neighbor
Douglas Tanner checked his fire escape every night before bed.
29 Playlist for the Dead Air
Ray Mata got out of his Corolla outside the warehouse on Wythe Avenue and checked his teeth in the rearview mirror.
30 The Roughing Curve
Otis Nichols was twenty-nine years old and he had driven five hours to stand in front of a smoking hut in the middle of nowhere, Ontario.
31 The Engine Room Typewriter
The typewriter sat on a workbench under the one working bulb in the engine room of the old naval ship.
32 Dry Dock
*This one came from the idea of putting a lifeguard on dry land and watching the water metaphors dry up.
33 The Night Audit
I've worked the night audit at the Thornwood Inn for fifteen years.
34 The Auditor's Chaos
Edmund Prickett was thirty-eight years old, and he believed in Tuesday.
35 The Chicken Tax Incident
I owed Cherise a favor.
36 The Rigger's Canoe
My girlfriend left me six months ago.
37 The Apron Strings
My name is Naomi, I'm thirty-three, and I fix transmissions for a living.
38 A Layover to Remember
The ferry dumped me off at Sausalito on a Tuesday afternoon in November, and I want you to understand right off that this was not my idea…
39 The Water Tank Waltz
The power went out at 7:40 on a Thursday evening in August.
40 Bridge Painter for the Night
So here's how my Tuesday night started: me, a green plastic watering can, and the glass door of the Plumco call center lobby, which I have…
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