Short Stories Humor

An immovable object stands in the way of the Galactic Emperor Jarrl. He has waged siege against his arch-nemesis for 1,000 years, but the barrier still stands. Now, he has come up with a plan to put the immovable object's name to the test, and lay waste to his enemies. Will his plan work? Will he manage to obliterate his foes? Will he press the big red button to destroy a galaxy?

What if it was possible for you to see into your future? What if it was not as simple as seeing? What if you had to choose between a series of possible futures? Would you? Would you want to? How would you deal with all the possible consequences? Madame Olga could help you. That is if you can find her.

The warrior Mithra must repel a Roman legion alone and armed only with one very tasty weapon. The Romans are marching! To protect her lands and her tribe, Mithra comes up with a sticky solution to an impossible problem.

Three monologues and two short stories about dodgy dealings, scams, con men, rogues, and fiddles! Exquisitely read by the author, these humorous tales will have you smiling!

No one knew that Betty wore corrective lenses until she showed up for Sunday coffee wearing a very thick pair of warped-lensed dark brown plastic-framed glasses. She’d contracted an eye infection resulting in one of her eyes becoming a beady little eye. At coffe, her cousin, Roger, accidentally spilled the beans regarding him dating someone named Pat. Unable to squash their curiosity, wanting to learn more about this mysterious Pat person, Aggie and Betty followed Roger to a day spa in Palm Springs. That was when Aggie received a dreaded phone call from her archnemesis.

In Once Upon A More Enlightened Time, Garner tackles many demeaning, culturally biased viewpoints through his retelling of such well-known tales as "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Tortoise and the Hare". He has striven to fashion these bedtime stories into literature that is totally free from bias and purged from the influences of a flawed cultural past in hopes of freeing our social consciousness from these blights.

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.

In Englander's amazingly taut and ambitious "The Twenty-seventh Man," a clerical error lands earnest, unpublished Pinchas Pelovits in prison with twenty-six writers slated for execution at Stalin's command, and in the grip of torture Pinchas composes a mini-masterpiece, which he recites in one glorious moment before author and audience are simultaneously annihilated. In "The Gilgul of Park Avenue," a Protestant has a religious awakening in the back of a New York taxi.

The request was a first for Eli Marks: "Can you help me make my tuba disappear?" Magician (and magic shop owner) Eli Marks is confronted with this odd demand just before he is about to close up shop for the day. Over the next few tense minutes, he finds a solution to that question which also, fortunately, puts him the positive side of what turns out to be a life-or-death situation.

The follow-up to Matt Shaw's Bite-Size: A Collection of Short Stories. Hear five more previously unpublished short stories from one of Britain's most warped imaginations.

On Our Selection is a collection of humorous short stories by Australian author Steele Rudd. It follows the trials and tribulations of the Rudd family, pioneers carving out a living in the Australian bush. The book humorously depicts the struggles of farming life, the resilience of the settlers, and the quirks of rural Australian society.

Seventy-five-year-old Eugenia Thompson thinks it's time for a change in her life. After losing her husband last year to a short illness, she decides to mortgage her house and open up a cupcake shop in her hometown of Shelbington, North Carolina. What could possibly go wrong, she wonders? Well, for starters, Eugenia's part-time helper calls out sick on opening day, forcing her to hire a temp on very short notice. She then wonders whether her business will succeed when the avalanche of customers she was expecting doesn't materialize.

Trish Cunningham is the host of the nationally syndicated television show, Homeless Makover, where they select a homeless person at random off the streets and turn them into a cleaned up, shaved, coiffed and smartly dressed gentleman. They have one day to make the transformation. Can it be done with this particular man of the streets? It's a tall order, but they're just about done when, what do we see here? Oh oh.

Life in the nursing home is boring, so you decide to just wander away one day in search of adventure and excitement. You find a golf cart that someone has left nearby, while they search for their lost ball. It's your ticket to freedon and you drive away with the cops not far behind on your trail. Not exactly a high-speed chase scenario, but you still leave chaos in your wake. It's a day the rest of the town will remember. You've left your mark, and now it's nap time.

Edwin, ist Einer von uns. Er ist, je nachdem wie er sich fühlt, zwischen fünfunddreißig und sechzig Jahre alt, arbeitet und wohnt in einer Kleinstadt irgendwo in Deutschland. Er ist ein Einzelgänger, er lebt also allein und ist zufrieden damit. Meistens. Er sieht Probleme, wo keine sind, und fühlt sich gut, wenn er die Probleme nicht wahrnimmt. Er ist entrüstet, wenn er glaubt, dass man von ihm verlangt, anders zu sein. Er liest viel und macht sich schlau über Dinge, über die er täglich stolpert.

Tony Hunt, author of 'Geordie Boy - small events in a child's life', has taken a darker turn with this collection of short stories, centred around the volunteers who work in a Lake District charity shop. The five stories are linked in parallel; each story standing alone, but as you listen to each one, a fuller picture appears of the strains and stresses that afflict people who have retired to the Lakes to seek serenity, but instead find themselves at the mercy of events.

Sie lieben sich, sie hassen und sie töten sich – mit Alpenveilchen, Christrosen oder Eisenhut denn gegen alle(s) ist ein tödliches Kraut gewachsen, egal, ob ausgediente Ehemänner, alte Widersacher, verhasste Haustiere oder nervende Nachbarn. Wenn böse Menschen die hohe Kunst der botanischen Giftmischerei zelebrieren, wird es mörderisch spannend – bis zum letzten Blatt.

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Before she knows it, Turquoise finds herself in strange and perilous worlds populated by the likes of human oddities, shape-shifters, serial killers in flying saucers, flesh-eating hippies, man-eating house cats, and sleazy televangelists who produce snuff films for Christ.

Tales from the Beach House is a satiric work of fiction that sharply captures the "man-bites-dog" world of contemporary South Florida. The Beach House, a crumbling old motel, is home to a collection of eccentric residents. Amongst their ranks: a tennis pro at the end of his game, a mortuary scientist whose love life has flat-lined, a paparazzo photographer searching for scoops, and more. Each member of this cohort is in search of something - fast money, an easy hustle, fleeting romance, enduring love, fame, power, dignity, happiness...a place they can call home.