Humor Anthology

What really happened in the Garden of Eden? Who was behind the serpent and the apple? What was God thinking? At last, it can be told! The unexpurgated story of what really happens in Heaven. Why God created time. The truth about his friendship with Satan. Those rumors of a drinking problem. The meaning of life. Whether sin really exists. The political power of the three angels’ unions. Hear all about it! These are the stories that the cherubim don’t want you to know! This is what really goes on Behind the Pearly Gates.

A dozen stories set from NYC to LA, to Asheville to Varanasi. Voices in the Dirt is a transgressive, darkly comical collection of stories, mostly centered around young men struggling with the specter of an incomprehensible world. A banquet server seeks enlightenment by being buried alive (breathing apparatus included!). Three identical families compete with each other to determine the "true" family. Karmic retribution is served after a tourist on the Ganges steals a human jawbone as a ghastly souvenir. If you like wild rides without safety bars, then have a seat.

Zbiór opowieści o niestandardowych świętych, których losy zostały związane z dziwnym Osiedlem, gdzie kontakt ze zmarłymi jest możliwy w przestrzeni wirtualnej, a czas da się nie tylko zatrzymać, ale także zawrócić. Osiedlowi święci żyją nie tylko w sąsiedztwie kościoła, lecz także sklepu monopolowego i ławki w parku, a koleje losów postaci opowiadane są z dużą dozą absurdalnego humoru.

Herr A. ist ein armes Würstchen. Ständig tappt er in eine der zahllosen Fallen, die das Leben für die Männer ausgelegt hat. Typisch Mann eben. Da ist die Liebe, die Auseinandersetzung mit seiner Frau beim Schuhkauf, beim Fußball und beim Heimwerken, Probleme mit den Kindern und auf der Arbeit, die Beobachtung der Geminiden, die Sache mit der Diät und schließlich der Wettstreit mit den Igeln. Als Retterin in allen Notlagen erweist sich seine Frau.

Throbbing Morton is a village in the English Cotswolds. Though there has been human habitation on the site for well over a thousand years, there is no record of it in the Domesday Book, and you will find it on no map today. Perhaps it is the boggy fields or the high hedges that have kept it out of public view. It might also have been the great fungal toenail epidemic of 1438 that kept the rest of the world at bay; no one knows for sure. The outcome of all this is that it has bred colorful characters of great distinction.

Douglas Fergus wants you to be happy. And laugh. Or at least feel good knowing you’re not the only person who thinks weird is cool. He is compelled to share his quirky/humorous/satirical outlook on life in an effort to spread joy to as many people as possible.

Una desternillante colección de relatos que aúna todos los ingredientes para que el lector pierda la chaveta: desde personajes que se rebelan contra el autor a fines del mundo, pasando por Cthulhu metido en política, ángeles o incluso Dan Brown. Si los lectores no acaban llorando de la risa es que no tienen alma, como alguno de los personajes de estos cuentos.

This anthology consists of 50 stories, which are separated into four series, as well as independent stories.

Encore, Encore! The brilliant sequel to the smash bestseller Auntie Mame is back and the reviews are in....

O. Henry wove several stories together into this highly episodic narrative, taking his title and inspiration from Lewis Carroll's ballad of the walrus and the carpenter in Through the Looking-Glass. The stories are set in the fictional country of Anchuria in Central America, a banana republic where larceny is rampant and revolution lurking in every impoverished back alley. O. Henry offers a cutting satire of contemporary politics and prejudices.

Appalachian Galapagos follows the smash success of Scary Rednecks and Other Inbred Horrors with authors Weston Ochse and David Whitman returning us to the world of rednecks, human-skin beer cozies, urban legends come to life, southern mythology, drunkards flying in lawn chairs, contemplations on the nature of god, and the monsters within us all. Galapagos cements its ownership of the genre opening with a grand opus of a novella co-written by both authors, featuring backwoods churches, boat rides, and bigfoots.

Kate and Michael, twenty-something housemates working at the same Trader Joe’s supermarket, are thoroughly screwed when people start turning into zombies at their house party in the Oakland hills. The zombie plague is a sexually transmitted disease, turning its victims into shambling, horny, voracious killers.

Critically acclaimed author David Schickler made a splash with Kissing in Manhattan, a best-selling story collection that Booklist said is "magical" and "never ceases to amaze and impress". Now this gifted writer's extraordinary imagination produces a brazen novel that reads like Bonnie and Clyde meets Robin Hood.

Remember the stories your grandfather used to tell you about way back when? Remember laughing out loud as the stories got deeper? If you like to LOL, then this really is a book for you. Here you'll find some observations on life in general and people in particular, as seen through a collection of newspaper columns, presenting skewed, offbeat, semiserious, and sometimes amusing views of the world.

So there was all that: the ordinary twill of life; the ho-hum sturm und drang of the workplace: the ubiquitous absurdities, the annoying co-workers, the bloody deadlines and even bloodier bottom lines; the bland, eternal, Sisyphean, absolute, unrelenting, surreal certainty of the day-in-and-day-out of it all. Life as a slice of white bread, moistened with spit and rolled into a messy glob, a doughy ball that couldn't make the slightest dent in the iron gates of life. But then, suddenly, on August 27, 2002, all that changed. Suddenly, Rae-Jean's uneventful life began to leaven and swell with hypotheticals.

When DeLoyd Stroudamore discovers a cedar chest filled with handwritten stories from 1930s Toad Springs, Florida, he uncovers a world of three-legged gators with Jesus's face, preachers with prison pasts, and beauty shop disasters. Through authentic voices in genuine dialect, these interconnected tales reveal how ordinary people survived the Depression with humor, faith, and resilience.

Per chiarire, per spiegare, Freak nel corso di tutta la sua vita ha scritto libri, canzoni, poesie, aforismi, calcando innumerevoli volte i palcoscenici di questa ingrata Italia. Tutto ciò che è assurdo & bizzarro insieme, non eroico, non retorico, non modaiolo, non istituzionale, può essere demenziale. Un cocktail di pseudofuturismo, dada, goliardia, improvvisazione, animazione pirotecnica, provocazione con ironia d'avanspettacolo, poesia surreale soprattutto cretina. Ma ancora incidenti a caso, paradossi e colpi di genio, contraddizioni, sciocchezze e gazzarra.

Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon-to-be 26th president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Beginning with his sickly childhood and concluding with McKinley's assassination, the novel positions Roosevelt as a "perfect bull in a china shop," a fearless crime fighter and pioneering environmentalist who would grow up to be our greatest peacetime president.

An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violence of his neighbour's makeshift porn channel. An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets out that she's fucked her thirty-something teacher. A hose pumping cava through the maquette of a giant penis becomes a murder weapon in the hands of a disaffected housewife.

Dieses Hörbuch enthält in einer Auswahl Sostschenkos satirische Texte von den zwanziger Jahren bis zu Kriegsbeginn. Der sozialistische Alltag mit seinen Zumutungen und Absurditäten bot dem Autor reichlich Stoff. Sei es ein Klinikaufenthalt, der zum Albtraum wird, die schwierige Wohnungssuche, Warenknappheit, Liebeshändel oder kleine Gaunereien – Sostschenko ist nichts Menschliches fremd. Der Leser weiß oft nicht, ob er weinen oder lachen soll. Am besten beides gleichzeitig.