The Last Ferry Out
I'm twenty-eight years old, I have a doctorate in anthropology, and last Saturday I spent seven hours hiding behind a lifeboat on a ferry…
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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61 62 The Trick Showdown
Me and Charlene got to the park at nine in the morning, which was earlier than I wanted to be up on a Saturday, but I had a plan and plans…
63 The Crank of Her Affection
Gino came back from the chinking job with mortar dust in his hair and a bad mood in his chest.
64 Brittany Bees and the Snow Globe
Brittany Rees had lived in Dunton long enough to know one thing for sure.
65 The Theremin Talent Show
I haven't seen Jasper Webster in ten years, which is a thing I keep having to re-say to myself while the ferry bumps toward Frøya.
66 Sweat Equity
You can tell a lot about a man's life by what he's hosing down on a Tuesday.
67 The Gratitude Game
Okay, so, I'm twenty-eight years old and I like to think of myself as a rational person.
68 The Ruined Torta
*I wanted to write a revenge story where the weapon is genuine surprise, not cruelty.
69 The Gratitude Audit
Ivy was twenty-nine and she paid a woman named Donnie eighty dollars a session to tell her things like "you are blocking your own…
70 The Vinyl Lesson
Sarah pulls her Honda into the gravel lot at the Rustic Relic Antique Mall at 10:40 on a Saturday morning, and she sits there a minute…
71 A Frayed Wire and a Prayer
Burt Rosenberg parked the Land Rover outside the plaster mill at six forty on a Friday evening and sat in the driver's seat for a full…
72 Drawbridge Blues
The drawbridge is stuck open and I am stuck on the wrong side of my own courage, which honestly feels like a more serious mechanical…
73 The Eggplant Gambit
*I wrote this because I wanted to see a married couple be absolutely feral for each other in the most ridiculous possible setting.
74 The Leech Farmer's Debt
Christy was fifty-four years old, and she had learned, somewhere around her fortieth birthday, that the word "favor" was a trap.
75 The Spice Must Flow
I want to start by saying I'm forty-two years old and I have spent most of those years being sensible, which is a polite way of saying…
76 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…
77 The Accordion Incident
Julianne pulled into the bookstore parking lot at four forty, which gave her twenty minutes before the place closed for good.
78 Thermometer at Dawn
Lizzie Marsh was forty-three years old, and she had baked competitively for exactly three years, which meant she had been doing it roughly…
79 Ballot Boxed In
The Grange Post Office smelled like old paper and wood smoke, the way it always did, and Jessi Greer pushed the door open with her hip…
80 Turbine and Tux
The tuxedo hung in my locker like a promise I'd made while slightly drunk on spite.
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