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.
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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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41 42 The Special Sauce Situation
I'm Javier Reeves, thirty-four years old, and I've been the nice guy at La Cocina de la Playa for six years.
43 Takedown at Take Two
"You've got to be kidding me," Murray said.
44 The Fitting Room Dare
Craig Atkinson had covered forty-one bridal expos.
45 The Layover and the Endpaper
Katherine Cummings was thirty-four years old and had been awake for twenty hours.
46 Pigeon in the Bamboo
Magnus Swenson watches his wife's taillights disappear down the county road for the fourth evening this week, and the familiar knot…
47 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…
48 The Fairground Flasher
My birthday was coming up, or rather Caren's was, and I was sitting in the back of the ambulance doing nothing for once.
49 The last store on earth
The plan was simple, which should have been my first warning.
50 The Doorframe Chalk-Up
Every Jenkins Chalk-Up starts the same way.
51 The Noise Ordinance
The first blast hit at 5:47 in the morning.
52 The Great Sock Drawer Gambit
Burt Aldous, fifty-four years old and retired from the meat counter he still missed, had hidden his winning lottery ticket in the sock…
53 The Reunion Carcass
The market square was gray when they pulled in.
54 The Night Baker's Rehearsal
I want to tell you I walked into that tea house with dignity.
55 The Dewey Decimal Debacle
Pam had been married to Shannon for over fifteen years, and in that time she had given her a series of memorable gifts, including one…
56 The Pour Decision
Tuesday nights at The Rusty Tap are slow, and I like it that way.
57 The Bosun's Confession
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…
58 Boring Mill Breakdown
Marion had told herself she was going to spend Friday night on her couch eating cereal out of the box and feeling sorry for herself, and…
59 The Deposition Drafter
Shelby was thirty-four years old and she had the malt spiel down to a science.
60 The Last Art of Wrangling Geoffrey
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…
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