Two-Step to Truce
The email came in at 4:47 on a Friday, which Dora knew was deliberate.
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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41 42 The Dive Boat Shift
I was twenty-three years old, a second-year elementary school teacher, and on the first Friday of October I locked myself out of my…
43 The Tandem Gambit
The tandem bike showed up on a Tuesday, and it wasn't even ours.
44 The Night Shift Secret
Francis was flat on the creeper under the white Freightliner with half the drivetrain dropped and a knuckle scraped raw, when the office…
45 The Tuner's Hands
Cass had been tuning pianos for twenty years, and in all that time she had never once had to fight a festival crowd to get to a client's…
46 Last Embers
You don't expect to end up running a junkyard.
47 The Nanny's Neighbor
Ethan dumped me three months ago, and I'm still not over it.
48 The Night Composer
*This one came from a late-night thought about how the scariest places are the ones we think we know.
49 The Weather Station Incident
Gregor Wakefield was forty-four years old and sitting in a Corolla outside a weather station on the top of a hill in rural New Zealand…
50 After Hours Pruning
The parking lot at GreenScape Corp was empty except for Aileen's Honda and mine, and the security lights had already kicked down to that…
51 The Mail Room After Dark
My name is Trixie Decker, I'm forty-seven years old, and I've been running the basement mail room of the Fairmont Building for fifteen…
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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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