Humor Anthology

Our moon is something special. It illuminates the magical things that could otherwise hide from view. Here there be witches and werewolves. A horror-comedy collection from the author of Demons and Other Inconveniences, What Tangled Webs, and Mortimer Grim.

Rediscover the warmth, laughter, and unforgettable moments of the good old days with Timeless Short Stories for Seniors—the #1 nostalgic collection that brings cherished memories back to life. Do you ever miss the simple joys of yesterday—sharing stories, hearty laughs, and life’s gentle lessons with the people who mattered most? This nostalgic book is your invitation to revisit those meaningful moments and celebrate them all over again.

Nada Alic's women—the perverts, nobodies, reality TV stars, poetic hopefuls, shameless party girls, and self-help addicts of Los Angeles and its environs—are all wrestling with a shared stark reality: the modern world. To cope, they live in their baddest thoughts: the lush, strange landscape of female make-believe.

In this bunch of offbeat stories, the listener will be sucked into a series of abnormal, yet compellingly dark and amusing tales. A sailors tavern gets an unexpected visitor with a message that could save humanity from itself. Two naughty boys on a school trip to the zoo decide to play a trick that backfires with crushing consequences. A grumpy old man drops devastation in his wake as he leaves behind a trail of deadly flatulence on his trip through the village. The neighbours from hell get neighbours who really are from hell.

Clare es una adolescente normal en su primer año de preparatoria. Ansía ser aceptada, y no desea otra cosa que escapar de su realidad. Encuentra seguridad y santuario dibujando y escribiendo historias, pero cuando conoce a Sherry, comienza a combinar su necesidad de interacción humana con su gusto por la fantasía. Juntas las dos jóvenes se embarcan en una aventura en la que el subdirector, el señor Cortez, es la estrella.

Surprising and revealing, set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, Ann Beattie's astutely observed new collection explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and aging.

"Isn't so and so a snob?" he asks. "She won't even admit she liked Grease." Looking for an author who ponders the imponderable, expresses the inexpressible, describes the indescribable, and leaves no burning issue of American popular culture or world concern unexamined? Well, you'll find him in Mark Leyner. On this recording, Leyner, one of the most gifted and original young American writers around, reads 6 prose pieces from his first published book.

The Basilwade stories were originally published on the CaféLit website, where you can access short stories that go nicely with a cuppa. We even suggest a drink! Dawn Knox’s stories contain characters and situations that may seem a little larger than life at first glance but we can soon see that everyone involved is very human. And don’t we all recognise the quirkiness of village/small-town life?

A baby rat freed from the bottom of a dumpster becomes a white ibis wandering the wet driveway after a storm. Goodbye, hello, goodbye. It was the garbage times; it was time for something else. A tale of two tales, connected by a mysterious sunlit portal.

This book consists of 27 short stories of murder, mystery and mayhem. This is book one in a series of eight short story compilation books.

It's that time of the year again, the holiday season. Between checkout lines a mile long, the office party hangover, battles with traffic, and delayed flights, what's better to do than to listen to The Worst Noel and laugh your holiday aggravation away? The collection features an eclectic mix of writers with playful, often dark humor as the common thread.

E.E. King delivers a collection of short stories that are original, funny, and always thought provoking. From a hilarious tale of an animal activist who can't get anything right to a man tasked with writing a guidebook for heaven. These tales will delight you.

Matt Debenham's stories are for people who think they don't like short stories. These stories don't leave off in mid-breath; instead, they feature characters who seem to live on even after their closing pages. The humor in The Book of Right and Wrong makes the jarring moments that much more jarring, and the tender moments that much more tender. At once heartbreaking and hilarious, the 11 stories in The Book of Right and Wrong capture their characters at the defining moments of their lives.

A collection of short stories from The Big Garage on Clear Shot chronicles the offbeat lives of the colorful inhabitants of The End of the Road, a small town in Alaska.

Ever dream about writing to your favorite writer and receiving a package as a reply? What's in that package? What if you could see murders and suicides before they happened? How would you proceed? Easy answer, but what if you enjoyed it? Why is a grandmother singing about the apocalypse in the street? Most importantly, what's your good line?

The gang from The Last Stop Retirement Community is back in 12 hilariously inspiring short stories and 14 new issues of "The Last Stop Bulletin"! "Finders Keepers": Find out what happens when new resident, Benji Little, takes to the halls with his FX-458 Gold Digger X-treme Model 2 Metal Detector.

Alvitania is a dazzling collection of satirical short stories and surreal tales that blend dark humor, magical realism, and sharp social commentary. From absurd business trips to vanished countries, dystopian futures to bizarre political revolutions, each story in Tim Wexler’s anthology invites listeners into a world that is both uncannily familiar and thrillingly strange.

Premio Biblioteca Breve 2021. Un derroche de ingenio literario en una divertida historia de identidades cruzadas. Audiolibro narrado por Àlex Brendemühl. Veinticinco años después de protagonizar una gam­berrada que marcará el transcurso de la vida de un grupo de amigos, el narrador sin nombre de esta no­vela recibe un mensaje de Simón, un miembro de la pandilla que desapareció un buen día sin dejar rastro, con una propuesta inesperada.

Alcune delle più belle novelle di Pirandello che affrontano il tema della morte e dell'insensatezza dell'esistenza umana: "L'imbecille"; "Sole e ombra"; "La berretta di Padova"; "Sgombero"; "La morte addosso"; "E due"; "Il chiodo"; "La distruzione dell'uomo"; "La trappola"; "La mano del malato povero"; "Mentre il cuore soffriva"; "La levata del sole"; "L'illustre estinto"; "L'uccello impagliato"; "Il viaggio"; "Scialle nero"; "Il no di Anna". La voce di Gaetano Marino ci accompagna tra macabra ironia e feroce non-sense in un viaggio alla scoperta della morte... o poco prima!

Klassischer Humor, mit einem Augenzwinkern dargereicht in Form von Kurzgeschichte, Novelle oder Komödie! 10 Meisterwerke der Literatur! Mit dabei: Der gestohlene Kaktus (K. Capek), Die 1 Million Dollar Pfundnote, Adams Tagebuch (M. Twain), Die Nase (N. Gogol), Frauen sind eitel. Männer? Nie! (K.