The Overtime Clause
I was twenty-three years old, married two years, and pushing a commercial vacuum across the fifty-third floor of a law firm at eleven at…
Law office stories
Law office stories, from quick reads to long series. Most law office stories here sit in bdsm and humor & satire. Reads run 13 to 23 minutes. Writers to know: Summit Echo, Route of Cinder and Cobalt Ticket. Readers usually start with “Empty Nest, Fresh Spark” and “The Cobbler's Lesson”. 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 Torch Tip
The truffle bazaar smells like dirt and machine oil this early.
23 The Cruise Entertainer
Okay so let me set the scene, because honestly this whole thing started with a fridge.
24 Second Cast on Love
I turned fifty-two in March and I celebrated by buying myself a new coffee maker and sleeping in.
25 Papercut Spite
I want to start with the memo, because the memo is the whole reason for what happened on the nineteenth floor of Blaine & Rodgers on a…
26 The Juror's Challenge
Lloyd Peck was fifty-two years old and he had never served on a jury in his life.
27 Her Last Case
The elevator opened on fourteen and the hall smelled like old carpet and floor wax.
28 Delivery at Dusk
The package sat on my passenger seat for the whole drive downtown, and I kept glancing at it like it might open itself.
29 The Deposition Drafter
Shelby was thirty-four years old and she had the malt spiel down to a science.
30 The Resonator
The barn smelled like machine oil and old beans on Tuesday.
31 The Confession Exhibit
The flyer said the language exchange met Thursdays at the Railway Museum.
32 She Was Never Human
The skiff bumped against the dock and I grabbed the piling before I went in the water, which would have been a fine way to end fifty-four…
33 Honey and Saltwater
I am sixty-three years old, I work as an analyst at a law firm, and on a Tuesday evening in Lyon I put on a dress I had not worn in eleven…
34 Map of Us
I was on my knees in the fire hall kitchen, scrubbing the floor under the stove, when Vincent started his drill in the main bay.
35 The Partner Clause
I sat in my car three blocks from the hotel and argued with my reflection in the visor mirror.
36 The Plant Whisperer
Clark killed the fern on a Monday.
37 The Rope of the Gavel
*This one came from a weird day where I kept thinking about courthouse hallways after hours, all that institutional authority, just…
38 Oil and Orders
I'm sixty-three years old and I pour coffee for a living, or at least part of a living.
39 Object Lessons
Dear Carlton, You think I was impressed.
40 Rival Worship
Addison Kell, twenty-eight, office manager at Brightwell & Grange, had been losing to Aris Jeffries for two years and could not tell you…
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