Funny Shorts

Funny Stories for Seniors: Collection brings together the best of Toby Kuhn’s hit series in one delightful bundle, featuring real-life misadventures, clever characters, and sharp wit tailored for spirited seniors and anyone young at heart. Whether you’re cozying up with a warm drink or gifting a loved one who could use a good chuckle, this collection delivers comfort and comedy in spades.

“Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve -- and makes you laugh along the way.” —Lena Dunham Single, Carefree, Mellow is that rare and wonderful thing...

That’s your cue to press play on Campfire Stories for Kids: The Howling Tales Collection—a spellbinding mix of mystery, laughter, and just the right amount of goosebumps. Every story pulls kids into a world where curiosity wins over fear, and imagination runs wild beneath the stars.

Michael Chabon once said, “I scan the tables of contents of magazines, looking for Antonya Nelson's name, hoping that she has decided to bless us again.” And now she has blessed us again, with a bounty of the stories for which she is so beloved. Her stories are clear-eyed, hard-edged, beautifully formed. And in Funny Once, their flawed humanity is made beautiful, perfectly observed by one of America’s best short story writers.

Alex Goodwin tackles everything from curling tournaments to high-stress bakery jobs to incredibly inventive (in the wrong way!) midnight tours of Igor’s castle to the hardship of aglet manufacturing to the satisfaction of homecoming (even if that home happens to be a bomb-testing field in the Death Valley).

Seal Island is home to a moonshine-making billionaire, a pot-growing fisherman, a celebrity flower child, a handsome romance writer, a sex-addicted realtor, a womanizing pub owner, a cop, a pot-bellied pig…and a serial killer. The island is serene and remote. It is only accessible by boat. The residents like it that way, until those with the deepest and darkest of secrets start dying in the most bizarre of ways.

At Hopton Elementary, every day is an adventure! From unexpected science experiments to wild classroom challenges, nothing ever goes as planned—but that’s what makes it so much fun. Follow a group of third graders as they experience hilarious mishaps, surprising lessons, and the occasional total disaster. Whether it’s a school-wide balloon race, a messy art project, or a game of magnetic fishing gone wrong, one thing’s for sure—things will get out of control.

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices!

Grab your family, friends, or even your dog and gather around for a fun game of trivia! This book is great for kids and has the ultimate list of fun categories from food all the way to children's movies!

You'll find stories here about comic book characters that come to life, a fantastical submarine who's entrance is hidden near a baseball field, a magical world that exists inside a young boy's room, a talking pimple, a mysterious guitar man that helps two young boys, and a wonderful story about a young girl's tree house and the animals that come to crash her tea party!

A new collection of short stories examining the extraordinary shades of ordinary life, from the prize-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch (“A master of the short story" —The New York Times Book Review) In these twelve new stories, Richard Bausch explores the passions of men and women...

“These gripping, magical tales span time travel, portals, menacing butterflies, and more. A can’t-miss meditation on families and survival.” —People “A gorgeous book that also serves as a series of unanswerable, probing questions: How did we get here? How will we move forward? Can we...

This bundle includes four novels (5-8) in the Strangely Scary Funny Series. It follows the adventures of the librarian of Eden. One of his duties as librarian, in addition to checking out books, is protecting the town and its supernatural population. This includes dealing with a variety of witches, demons, angels, a hellhound, a monster or two, occasional god, and an assortment visitors from the nearby haunted forest.

A hopeful, speculative short story collection about how humanity grapples in a world transformed by climate change. “Climate fiction does not owe readers hope, but through humor and humanity Hyde manages to present a harsh reality without descending into despair, offering a space for mourning...

From New York Times bestselling author R.L. Stine, the master of horror for young listeners, comes 10 new stories that are sure to leave you shivering. Stine also reads the introduction to each story! A boy who hates bugs starts to see them everywhere. A basketball player’s skin starts to...

The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write—a story collection accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds—a work...

The third audiobook in the delightful series set in Carrington’s Department Store. Georgie Hart and Carrington’s Department Store have got the world at their feet. Since a reality TV series put them both on the map, life has been amazing! Carrington’s profits are in the pink, Georgie has carved herself a place in the nation’s heart and her romance with Tom, the store’s boss, has finally blossomed. Now summertime has come to Mulberry-on-Sea, and Georgie is in great demand.

‘Captivating, uplifting and heartfelt’ Heat Magazine Abby Field loves every inch of Meadowsweet Nature Reserve on the idyllic Suffolk coast where she lives and works. Especially Swallowtail House, the rambling but empty country house that seems to look out at her each time she passes it’s...

Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of...

A virtuosic, laugh-out-loud collection of stories that explore the fraught and fantastic nature of human connection—featuring women, men, various couples, and one terribly precocious baby enmeshed in tangled romances of all shapes and sizes. The wide-ranging and inventive stories that make up...