The Goat and the Grown-Up
*This story was born from a daydream about a loan officer meeting his match in a woman who's lived a little.
Funny and chatty mature stories
Stories in Mature tagged funny and chatty, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 23 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Bay Chapter, River Atlas and Route of Stone. Readers usually start with “The Goat and the Grown-Up” and “Backyard Grills”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Funny and chatty mature stories, ranked by readers
01 02 Backyard Grills
I'm standing at my grill on a Saturday in June, fifty-two years old, spatula in one hand, beer in the other, watching a moving truck eat…
03 The Fire Hall Bake-Off
I almost dropped the cupcake tray twice on the way from the parking lot, and both times it was because I was too busy squinting through…
04 Speed Dating the Wrong Sign
I moved to Middleton Vale in September, six months after the breakup, and for the first three weeks my social life consisted of the night…
05 Vet's Revenge Gone Wrong
I'm Sydney, thirty-two, and I've been a veterinarian for six years, which is long enough to know when somebody's stealing your work and…
06 The Zucchini Proposition
I turned forty-six on a Sunday, and I mention this only because it frames everything that came after.
07 The Bathhouse Experiment
The date was on a Thursday.
08 The Cookbook Dare
I was elbow deep in a box of somebody's dead aunt's paperbacks when Cari pulled the cookbook out of a crate of church donations.
09 Tugboat Chili
The pier at Seaspray Point smelled like rope and salt and cold diesel, and I stood at the end of it for a good two minutes before I walked…
10 Double Hook
The shop was called The Lure, which I always thought was a pun that thought too much of itself.
11 The Biscuit Shot
My name is Niko Bigshot, I'm forty-eight years old, and in October of last year I did something stupid and wonderful at the same time.
12 Eclipse at the Overlook
I locked the register at six and looked at the clock.