What r/Odd_directions is talking about this week

I was 24 when I died. I thought I’d have so much more time. Thought I’d be able to do the things I hadn’t done yet. I had so many plans. That’s life, though, I guess. I can’t change what happened....

30 years. That’s how long the two of us were together. High school sweethearts since 9th grade. By each other’s side ever since. We bought our first home together. Had our kids and raised them...

I love my printer. It's a beautiful printer, one from the good old days before they started making the stupid new ones that need to connect to every device in your home. The day it arrived, I...

I worked on washing machines for eleven years, mostly in motels and apartment buildings around western Pennsylvania. Sometimes laundromats, though I never liked those jobs much. The owners usually...

It was fifteen dollars. A steal. My wife and I had needed a cabinet for almost three years. We lived in a small apartment without much closet space. We had married young, and financially we were...

"Damn, my gloves feel thin," Dan said. "Did you check them, Jake?" "Yeah, dude," I replied, annoyed. "They felt strange during teleportation already; now they feel real strange." "Can we just get...

Time is weird. I nap, I play, I bask in the sun. Some days, people come and talk to the people. The big people, you know the ones right? Not-cats, but they hunt and bring me food, they protect me...

I work as an inventory control associate for a big distribution center out of Denver, CO. We receive and ship a bunch of stuff like furniture, machine parts, appliances, and so on. My job is...

Tom woke up in the middle of the night with the strange feeling that something in his ass was… blinking. He didn’t know why it was blinking, but somehow he knew. And he knew it couldn’t be...

I'm a piano tuner. Nineteen years, one county, one rusty van. Most of my jobs are boring on purpose: a church, a school gym, somebody's grandmother's upright. The Hollis house only wanted me once...