Write a short story about someone doing laundry.

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“Spiteful Panties” by Amanda Mitchum

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George often went on weekend trips with his friends to the casino about an hour away in the town of Cherokee. It didn’t bother Maggie too much because she didn’t really want to go. She just didn’t see the point of working herself to death only to spend her paycheck gambling it away. So, when he’d leave, she’d busy herself in the garden, do some scrapbooking, or play with the kids. They had a pretty good relationship by most standards; not much arguing, date nights out, vacations with the kids, and occasional flowers. &nbsp...

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“Dirty Laundry” by Dianne Diannemaddox29@gmail.com

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Charleigh glanced up at the clock and realized she had fifteen minutes to run to the bus stop. The buses in Park Slope, a section of Brooklyn that Charleigh adored, came every 20 minutes. If she missed the 7:40 am bus, she would miss her 9:00 am dreaded yearly review meeting with her manager. Charleigh had worked for Charlotte for three years. Charlotte was 10 years younger and 25 pounds lighter than Charleigh. Charlotte had a way of making Charleigh feel older beyond her years. “You just love...

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“Fluff, Fold and Farewell” by Dee N

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Manicured fingernails tapped across the paired collection of appliances. Her husband, David, had sought to talk Karen out of the cherry red color, but she stayed her ground, maintaining that white is monotonous, sterile and industrial, like a hospital. The remodeled utility room delighted her in the light, warm touches incorporated in the design. Wicker baskets held sorted clothing: white sheets, vivid colors and towels, which Karen always ran with the darker clothes. The basket of light clothing led first. She deposited them into the washer...

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“Sheila's Day Off” by Marianne Wilke

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Sheila’s migraine is finally gone. She walks around the house, seeing messes everywhere. There is a pile of dirty clothes 3 feet deep in the small laundry room. She decides to tackle that first.She sorts the clothes into 7 piles: lights, darks, her husband’s work clothes, jeans, towels, Cleaning clothes for her housecleaning jobs and the dogs’ stinky blankets.Sheila knows Wayne will be gone all day, so she isn’t going to stress out about the mess. She has all day to get it done, plus she can stay home today. It’s her day off.The first l...

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“Justin's Story” by Mike Garrigan

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Celia opened the dryer and felt a warmth brush past her face. Justin’s size 4T Oshkosh B’Gosh overalls had been rattling around in there for the past hour. The brass fasteners were probably hot, so Celia avoided folding the overalls.Celia grabbed a t-shirt from the hot jumble of clothing. She held up the shirt and remembered its design. The Force Awakens was Justin’s favorite movie. Celia took him to see it on opening weekend. Celia didn’t know anything about Star Wars but thought that Justin, being a four year old boy, would like it. What k...

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“Abandoned and Stolen (based off true events)” by Claudia Cook

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It's the day I had been dreading for weeks. Laundry Day I hated doing laundry. But there's only so long it can pile up before it starts falling out of the basket or smelling up the room. I think I would much instead prefer my room smell of lavender, not sweaty bras and tee shirts. Gathering up my laundry pods and basket, I began making my way to the basement of my dormitory. The basement of my dorm wasn't as creepy as one might think unless you went down there during October. I entered the laundry room or hang out area, my ea...

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“Sad Portrait of a 20-Something Doing Laundry” by Daniel Brown

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There are no fucking idiosyncracies with doing laundry. A spin cycle will always be a spin cycle, you’ll always wash your uniform with your bed sheets and towels and washcloths on cold and low spin for 23 minutes. You’ll dry the massive amalgam of wet things for 40 minutes or 55 if you aren’t doing laundry at the last minute as usual. You’ll fold clothes at your latest convenience while you're enthralled with music or some 20-minute video about a quirky big city girl with biting wit and short brown hair moving to be a quirky big city gi...

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“WHY SHOULD I WASH THAT FILTHY LAUNDRY?” by RADIUS HAVWAALA

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Bridget threw some delicious hip swings while angrily shooting off her mouth like an autumn peacock. “Why should I wash all that filthy laundry?”. “It is the shift Bridget, just obey,” Dainess paled her face like a malaria patient as she tried to calm her friend. The two were employed as maids at SAFE GUEST HOUSE in Kabwe’s mine area. The laundry being referred to consisted of beddings. An eccentric white woman had used them for months without any form of laundry. &nbs...

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“Every Little Thing” by Talia Bond

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The sharp scent of laundry detergent permeated the dingy room as Ali carefully measured her horded stash. ‘Almost out’ she thought with a brief sigh. She dumped it into the appropriate compartment and pushed it shut with her hip. The cycles emblazoned in her brain, she mechanically pushed the buttons, added the required coins and pushed start. The familiar sounds of the pumps and the water soothed her mind, and she pulled herself onto the counter to wait. The annoying tones of ‘I’m a Barbie girl’ shrilled and she rolled her ...

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“The Beauty in Moments” by Micaela Beck

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The washer machine spits and howls as it attacks the clothes within its confines, the sound echoing across the tiled floor. No one in the LaundroMat pays it any attention. The old woman with a hunched back a few paces to my right simply fills in another answer on her crossword. The raging battle fought by the machine that gobbled my quarters is a never-ending fight. Once its current enemy is vanquished, I will remove my limp clothing, and another faceless per...

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“Lost in Laundry; Found in Love ” by Anna Harkin

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I live in apartment 22B in the building right behind Taco Bell. I have a cat, Muskers. I do college online and I work at the grocery store down the street. My roommate bailed on me last month so I got stuck with paying the whole rent. I am up to my elbows in student loans and my anxiety is off the charts. I can hardly afford to buy groceries every week and my mother stopped talking to me after I moved out. My life just keeps getting harder and I hardly have any motivation anymore. But that doesn’t mean my life completely sucks. All of my nei...

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“A Defective Load” by Tiffany Ogunsua

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Marion watched as a congregation of white fabric circulated a vacuity, every round marking the downtick of her focus… her brain activity… her will to live. Thoughts composed then disassembled, too frivolous to carry out. She watched as groupings of cloth were ferried about the small laundromat in baskets, eddying when people stopped in lines—shifting their weight from toe to heel. Then, finally, the basket would strand on some open surface or another—never the floor, though. Marion returned her gaze to the washing machine,...

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“Shibusa” by Frankie Jackson

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It's been 8,423 minutes since my son has spoken to me. Everyone tells me it’s normal, common even, for fourteen-year-olds to lock themselves in their rooms and ignore their parents, but I don’t believe it. This can’t be normal.Go away. I don’t want to eat.These are the only words he ever says to me these days. When I first heard them, it was like an arrow to the chest, sharp, precise, and barbed. But now…now, I’m just thankful to hear his voice. There are some days where there’s nothing at all. I treasure his denials in this barren wasteland...

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“Doing Laundry Around the World and Back” by Ronda Everson

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Doing laundry is something we all have to do, but many of us don't realize there are different ways of doing it all over the globe. When I was a little girl living in Morocco when my dad worked at the embassy, my mother had one of those old washing machines with a roller. I loved helping her do the laundry and putting the clothes through the roller. However, the Araba women didn't have those washing machines. They were doing something different. They were stomping on their clothes. In our village, there was a stream that ran through the ...

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“The Dress” by Merissa Harde

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Doing her teenage daughter’s laundry was a tedious activity she usually put off until the weekend. It was a pile of denim jeans, T-shirts, sundresses, and the occasional dressy outfit she wore the weekend before while out with friends. Sometimes she poured herself a glass of red wine while she did; her way of rewarding herself. However, that weekend she had chosen a Sunday, right after breakfast, while her daughter studied in her bedroom. Soon, her daughter would do her own laundry, when she went off to college, but until then it didn’t both...

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Write a short story about someone doing laundry.

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✍️ 95 stories

“Spiteful Panties” by Amanda Mitchum

“Dirty Laundry” by Dianne Diannemaddox29@gmail.com

“Fluff, Fold and Farewell” by Dee N

“Sheila's Day Off” by Marianne Wilke

“Justin's Story” by Mike Garrigan

“Abandoned and Stolen (based off true events)” by Claudia Cook

“Sad Portrait of a 20-Something Doing Laundry” by Daniel Brown

“WHY SHOULD I WASH THAT FILTHY LAUNDRY?” by RADIUS HAVWAALA

“Every Little Thing” by Talia Bond

“The Beauty in Moments” by Micaela Beck

“Lost in Laundry; Found in Love ” by Anna Harkin

“A Defective Load” by Tiffany Ogunsua

“Shibusa” by Frankie Jackson

“Doing Laundry Around the World and Back” by Ronda Everson

“The Dress” by Merissa Harde

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