Write a short story about someone doing laundry.

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“The Laundry ... I'll Worry About That Tomorrow” by Bobi Neher

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Ring… ring… ring … “Hello,” I said with a happy lilt.“Hi there Mindy, Amo here. Are you ready for the auction?”For once I did something right; I did my laundry three days ago. My favorite jeans, my dark blue skinny jeans, are clean and pressed. I settled on a skin tight black body suit with a ballerina neckline and long sleeves. My D.K. Gold jacket will add some pizzazz. It’s comfortable and a perfect frame for my turquoise necklace. It’s cream colored with squares of gray and black and tan. It’s old, but it’s a clas...

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“Empty Pockets” by Penelope Muller

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A stack of coins. “Seriously.” Last week it was a black comb, the week before it was a leaky pen, and before that, a scrunched packet of broccoli seeds. The fact that he dumped his washing in the pile without checking his pockets demonstrated a lack of care to her. She remembered that as a child she would have been in so much trouble with her mother for leaving things in her pockets. “Oh well, finders, keepers.” Coins left in pockets belonged to her now. Heaven knows he gave her little enough pocket money to buy the essentials. She closed th...

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“Scrubbed hands” by Jocelyn Bordador-Putnam

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Louise’s family purchased their first washer-dryer machine, a GE, in the early 1990s. They had just moved to the apartment row bought with her mother's office salary, and they were going through a rotating deck of housekeepers. The washing machine was a cheery lime green, and it had a hose for water to flow in and out of. It was important that they aligned the knobs exactly on the marks, or else they would end up either losing clean water before they began or retain dirty water past the end. Beddings, blankets, and most of their clothes wen...

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“Laundry Procrastination” by Cynthia Keeler

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Why does that black line blink? It marks where you were last typing, which is stupid because you can easily see where the words end on the page. Unless, of course, you are typing in the middle of the chapter you are currently trying to revise for the millionth time so that it might actually be something that someone with any kind of intelligence would actually want to read one day. What’s another word for sigh? It’s so overused. Exhale, whistle and maybe groan. Groan would work. She would definitely groan at what he just said. Then what, wha...

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“Red Bikini Panties In The Laundry ” by Warren Beatty

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Red bikini panties? They're not mine, not supposed to be there, thinks Midge as she begins to wash Stan's summer camp uniforms.She walks into their bedroom where Stan is dressing for work. As a manager of information systems for a large corporation he must always dress in good taste, so Midge lays his day's suit on their bed, makes certain the shirt, socks, and shoes she selects match the suit.All Stan's taste is in his mouth. Good thing the Army has uniforms.His boss, who tolerates his being in the National Guard, has made it clear Stan's p...

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Write a short story about someone doing laundry.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 95 stories

“The Laundry ... I'll Worry About That Tomorrow” by Bobi Neher

“Empty Pockets” by Penelope Muller

“Scrubbed hands” by Jocelyn Bordador-Putnam

“Laundry Procrastination” by Cynthia Keeler

“Red Bikini Panties In The Laundry ” by Warren Beatty

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