Humor Anthology

If you’ve ever had the feeling that, at heart, most people are just really terrible, then this is the book for you - a collection of short stories about awful people doing awful things to one another. In these dark and satirical tales, you’ll witness the fallout from a disgraced pop star, the perils of cancel culture, the rabbit hole of COVID conspiracies, the merciless hunt for revenge, and one billionaire’s plan to save the world.

Helmut Zöpfl trägt seine Erzählungen und Betrachtungen zum Weihnachtsfest auf seine gefühlvolle und doch nachdenkliche Art vor. Ironische Kritik an unserer hektischen, oft wenig "menschlichen" Art, das Weihnachtsfest zu feiern, kommt ebenso zu ihrem Recht wie kleine Geschichten und Betrachtungen, die uns zeigen, wie viel uns dieses Fest heute noch geben kann - wenn wir nur verstehen es wieder von seiner stillen, besinnlichen Seite zu sehen und die Liebe zu unseren Mitmenschen in den Vordergrund zu stellen.

Esta antología contiene las siguientes historias: Jared Pond salva (y desflorece) a una princesa árabe; El campamento de meditación; El tiroteo en la mansión de Dave; Diah Lubis y la búsqueda de la salchicha polaca; Diah Lubis y la búsqueda de las trufas de las cavernas; La caída del virtuoso Todd Connelly; Las muertes en la isla Rosscairn; Jared Pond y la chamana de Guane; La cita doble; Diah Lubis y el Minotauro; y mas.

Meet the superhero Spleen Squeezer, discover the true story of Eden, and travel to the safest city in the world in this third collection of unclassifiable ultra-short pieces by K.M. Halpern. But wait, there's more! For the same price, you get twice the wisdom, twice the wit, twice the heartpounding absurdity. Learn the danger of having ears, the importance of being unlikable, and how to achieve quality as an executioner. But it's a limited time offer. Delay and it could be too late. Since that's true of all things, it must be true of this.

If you want to laugh, there are five of the most politically incorrect stories you'll ever listen to! There's a little redneck in all of us, so come and visit our brave hero Cletus and his wife. You'll also meet his friends and a few strange folks along the way. What would you do if druids showed up during hunting season? Have you ever seen the Mona Lisa on a hubcap? Maybe, try your hand at some turkey fishing.

Get ready to relax, laugh, and shed a tear with down-home tales from a modern storyteller with old-fashioned values. Award-winning columnist Leslie Anne Tarabella draws on her deep faith and mischievous sense of humor to tell stories of raising two boys, dealing with humidity, overcoming communication malfunctions with her Northern-born husband, and eating delicious comfort food.

Race Harleson is up against it big time: The world is stripping naked, and it seems to be some form of viral madness. He ends up shot into space with a couple of sharp veteran astronauts...and a new sidekick, Dark Matter. Physics super-prodigy Crayten "Cray-Cray" Hobbs has juiced himself up so much that he can alter the essence of matter to his rather freewheeling will, so Race is understandably both awed and annoyed by the hyper young man, and he's stuck keeping his fingers crossed that the people who sent them up there knew what they're doing.

В конце девяностых годов только что ушедшего от нас века на прилавках магазинов и киосков появились первые попытки аудио издания сказок русского фольклориста А. Н. Афанасьева. Для "посвященных" не составит труда вспомнить их название "Срамные сказки".

Und wie ist es Weihnachten bei Ihnen? Weihnachten, wir wissen's alle, ist das Fest der Liebe und der familiären Idylle. Was aber tun, wenn man beim Weihnachtsessen von der Schwiegermutter kaltlächelnd gemästet wird? Die Nachbarn einem mit grell blinkender Weihnachtsdeko den Schlaf rauben? Man furchtbare Angst hat, beim Kauf des Weihnachtsbaums zu versagen und obendrein den heuchlerischen Schwur getan hat: "Dieses Jahr schenken wir uns nichts"? Vielleicht ist es da einfach am besten, im Kreis der Liebsten besinnliche Lieder zu singen. Fragt sich nur, ob vor dem Essen oder nach dem Essen.

Loyality, Compassion, Understanding, and Squirrels: the list of things that are not welcome at Q.J. Enterprises. One of the largest firms in the area, the corporate giant is known to the masses for innovative products at low prices. Through the shimmering gold doors and past the smiling receptionists sit cubicles filled with unhappy and mistreated worker bees.

This is the tale of one such worker bee, one among a sea of nameless, faceless workers the company simply assigns a number to and chooses to forget. What happens when the little guy has had enough?

Stephen Hill has been heaping abuse on poor Joe King since second grade. Now they're grown men with nothing in common, and Joe still patiently endures Stephen's unrelenting ridicule. But when friendship is only a matter of perspective, PAY BACK might be just around the corner in this irreverent and darkly humorous tale of revenge.

Living in the country today is hard. Life was even harder over a century ago. Many families developed a healthy dose of faith and humor to deal with surviving their harsh conditions. Oral history and family traditions were passed down from these hardy pioneers. Lucius shares some mostly true stories about friends and family from the 1890s to the present day. Learn about how his forefathers and foremothers dealt with snakes, outdoor plumbing, the first automobiles, and local watering holes. Lucius brings it back to the house with more of his adventures.

An implant that gives moral advice whether you like it or not, an irritable galactic ambassador examining Earth’s religions, a future where love can’t happen without litigation, pushy alien anthropologists without regard for the human need for privacy, discrimination against an artificial intelligence in a multicultural world, alien sex - love in the time of deformity, neighborly nitpicking made easy by Computer Court, the excruciating reality of Martian music, invasion of the toe snatchers, something crunchy on the menu, and a transgenic pig dog at war with an android nemesis.

The Fellowship Flock is a collection of “church-in” stories that center around a small church in Fairhope, Alabama. There are sad stories, funny stories, and, at the end, it is all pulled together as we find out who the narrator is.

Álex Ayala escribe acerca de unos jubilados que cumplen heroicamente su última misión en la vida: vigilar una estatua de John Lennon para que nadie robe sus características gafas. Y también lo hace sobre los habitantes de un pueblo de Bolivia que comercian con sus recuerdos sobre las últimas horas de vida del Che Guevara. En otro capítulo se habla del sastre Sillerico, quien ha gozado del dudoso honor de ver en paños menores a la mayoría de los presidentes de su país.

"Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno" è la raccolta di tre popolarissimi racconti ("Le sottilissime astutie di Bertoldo", "Le piacevoli et ridicolose simplicità di Bertoldino" e "Novella di Cacasenno, figliuolo del semplice Bertoldino"), i primi due scritti da Giulio Cesare Croce e l'ultimo da Adriano Banchieri, pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1620. I racconti riprendono e rielaborano novelle antichissime, in particolare la medievale Disputa di Salomone con Marcolfo.

Consciousness. Memory. Identity. Death. Everything and nothing. Loss of Consciousness is a collection of stories that range from gritty dystopian satire to heartwarming fantasy. The author presents a dark vision of a future replete with automation and artificial intelligence, in which humans have committed their lives into the hands of machines, only to have their own consciousness fade. He pokes fun at the modern culture of safetyism, elitist millennial attitudes toward taste, and the ultra-woke’s penchant for finding offense in anything and everything.

Илья Ильф и Евгений Петров известны, прежде всего, как авторы знаменитых романов "Двенадцать стульев" и "Золотой телёнок".

Один артист спросил у Зощенко: - Как я должен читать ваши рассказы, чтобы завоевать у слушателей успех? - Вслух, - ответил писатель. К известному врачу однажды явился пациент с жалобой на апатию, отсутствие аппетита, затяжные приступы меланхолии. Как выяснилось, он перепробовал все средства, все лекарства, но ничего решительно не помогает.

Eight hilarious satirical essays depicting people who believe they lean forward, believe they know, say they know, give advice with what they know, and try to keep others from accomplishing risky historical challenges. Included are the Antarctic Expedition, Constructing the Panama Canal, The Battle of Trenton, in addition to five more farcical stories exposing the naysayers, all written in the light comical style of Evelyn Waugh, and sure to amuse the listener.