The Choir Closet Incident
Calvin Ford had been mopping the fellowship hall floor of the First Community Church of Maple Hill for eleven years, and in all that time…
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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Humor & Satire stories, ranked by readers
81 82 Cadaver Comfort
Paige sat at the counter with a toe tag in one hand and a Sharpie in the other.
83 Pennywise & The Welder
I'd been talking to Neil Thorson online for six weeks before I agreed to meet him, which for me is basically a record.
84 Root Canal and Riffs
Hanna pulled the last rubber dam off the patient and stepped back from the chair.
85 The HR File on Leela Malone
*This one started with the image of a retirement party gone sideways because the ex shows up with a clipboard and a grudge.
86 The Catering Confession
The quiches slid again on the turn.
87 Booth Bitch
Katherine Redding, twenty-eight and six months out of the worst breakup of her life, had been standing behind the state-park recruitment…
88 The Noise Next Door
I was thirty-four years old, a night-shift nurse with a savings account, a cactus named Dennis, and no interest whatsoever in other…
89 The Ten-Touch Rule
Sylvie Malone was thirty-four years old and had been drinking alone at The Shady Elm for exactly forty minutes when Calvin Dunbar slid…
90 My Colon Went Rogue
I was crouched behind a dumpster in the loading alley of the Inner Bloom Wellness Retreat when I remembered the fake mustache.
91 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…
92 The Pink Tractor Pull
*This one came from a deep love of small-town absurdity and the way pride makes us do ridiculous things.
93 Jury Duty Therapy
Jury duty is where people go to feel bad about themselves in a government building.
94 Birthday at the Loading Dock
Rochelle was forty minutes into her double shift when Sophie came clomping across the loading dock with two coffees and a grin that meant…
95 The Grounds
Roberta had been on her feet since nine that morning, and by a quarter past five her knees had filed their usual protest.
96 The Revenge Snapshot
Tasha had been on the ferry for eleven minutes and she was already annoyed.
97 The Last Set
Ollie Metcalf is sixty-two years old and he will tell anybody who stands still long enough that he built The Low Note with his own two…
98 The Return Policy
I am thirty-eight years old and I spent last Saturday being yelled at by a man in a foam tent hat, and that is somehow not even the worst…
99 The Crush Bet
I was about halfway up the 5.10c on the east wall when I saw her.
100 Downward Spiral
Lizzy Massey was thirty-two years old and she had a plan, and the plan was to get fired.
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