The Gratitude Protocol
Marcia had been crouched behind the row of filing cabinets for eleven minutes when her left leg started to cramp.
Office stories
Office stories, from quick reads to long series. Most office stories here sit in mature and erotic horror. Reads run 14 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: The Ginger Avenue, Orchard Verse and Raven Coda. Readers usually start with “The Confocal Compromise” and “The Bake-Off After Hours”. 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 Torero's Last Spin
Friday is my favorite shift of the month, and I'll tell you why.
23 Cider and Light Between Hops
The drive out to Willow Creek took longer than the sat nav promised, mostly because the last two miles were single track with hedges…
24 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…
25 Closing the Register
My name is Mallory Bronson, I am sixty-two years old, and last Tuesday I threw up in a mop bucket at work.
26 The Lighthouse Keeper's Summer
I was twenty-four years old the summer I ran away to Maine, and let me state right off that I didn't think of it as running away at the…
27 The Beekeeper's Anniversary
I've been the editor of the Pine Creek Courier for three years now, and I'm twenty-four years old, which means I've spent my whole adult…
28 The Last Tee Time
The clubhouse gets loud in a way I never noticed before this year.
29 The Late Shift Proposal
The letter came on a Thursday.
30 The Birthday Lesson
The quarterly reports had gone soft on me.
31 The Oil Lamp Confession
Hilary heard the press before she saw it, the way she always did, the big Heidelberg humming through the floor of the press room like a…
32 Ash and Turkish Coffee
The tuk-tuk dropped me at the end of a gravel road and refused to go further, which I probably should have taken as a sign.
33 The Deadline Deal: Wanting the Story, Needing the Man
Dinah here, 35 years old, twelve years at this paper and lately feeling every one of them.
34 Sweep the Floor
I was thirty-three years old, a registered nurse with eleven years of hospital experience, and I was sorting other people's paperwork in a…
35 Her Devotion
I stayed late on a Thursday, which I did more often than I admitted to anyone.
36 Late Shift Love Match
My name is Dianne, I'm thirty-four years old, and I've been married to Sonny for five years.
37 Forklift Letters
*Kept in the notebook in my locker, the week Elliott came.
38 Letters to the Night Watchman
The auction house sat at the end of a dead-end street by the rail yard, four floors of cataloged everything with a loading dock that…
39 The After-Hours Tour
Georgina typed the last line of the sales summary, read it back, and deleted it.
40 The Putting Green
I'm Art, I'm forty-three years old, and I've been the superintendent at Fairview Hills Public Golf Course for eleven years.
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10 to 30 minutesBest office stories of 2026Writers known for it
The Ginger Avenue, Orchard Verse, Raven Coda, Route of Stone
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Office stories, from quick reads to long series.
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