Funny Shorts

Joe DeRozier sits at a big table in his bakery. The sheeter's over there. There are racks with trays of donuts. A police officer stops in. His kids come by. Someone up front wants a particular pastry--does he have it? His mother-in-law visits there. She's beautiful. Joe thinks a lot and writes it down. Those thoughts draw portraits of his mother-in-law, the police officer, and the town he loves. He says he just makes donuts, but he does more. Much more. Welcome to DeRozier's. Enjoy the visit.

Rebecca, an ambitious and stubborn 16-year-old has a stomach flu on the day of her big math exam. Hell-bent on getting a better grade than Susie, her nemesis and bully, she ignores her parents’ advice to stay at home. Things are about to get messy!

When Dr. Cline offers Dr. Morrison a large sum of money to take a patient off his hands, it should have been a red flag… but Dr. Morrison disregards it. After all, the patient’s condition is nothing out of the ordinary. How difficult can she be?...

Cassandra- I want to give Drake an anniversary to remember, make his biggest fantasy a reality. I thought he was crazy when he told me that he wanted to see me with another man, like, certifiably insane. Drake is shy, timid, conservative, anything but a wife sharer. But he wanted to do this and I wanted to do it for him. I made the plans, found Evan, an experienced Bull from Wall Street, tall, blonde, handsome. He’s everything I could have wanted for my first time as a hotwife. And, it just so happens that he’s into everything I’m offering, even if I have to play up the southern side ...

It’s not what’s in the box this Christmas, it’s who. Patience isn’t Brooke Cohen’s strong suit, never has been, never will be. When her husband surprises her with the Christmas experience of a lifetime, she doesn’t expect that her complete and total lack of patience will be tested over and over again by her favorite musician of all time. The knock at the door is just about the least exciting part of the whole ordeal and she almost tinkled her pants when that happened. Brooke’s celebrity crush, Mr. Kai-Li Chung himself, thinking ten steps ahead of her at all times, has no ...

A Novella from The Wedding Chase Anthology In a twist of fate, an innocent young lady and a handsome rogue were caught in bed together. But before their unavoidable marriage could begin, they found themselves facing an altogether unexpected challenge ... love!

The Boy Next Door Sharing a whole hell of a lot more than a cup of sugar with the boy next door. While Elliot's away, Brooke will play. Brooke and Matty should have been burning up the sheets 10 years ago. But we can’t always get what we want… Or can we? Brooke is out of excuses to not visit her family for Thanksgiving. There's an extra spot set at the table, a sexy stranger takes up residence. Except, the stranger’s not a stranger he's Matty Naverly. Strong and fit, filling out his jeans in just the right way, Matty looks more delectable than the big meal ever could. When Matty and ...

A very short collection of humorous and up lifting stories. A teenage boy tries to put the moves on a girl at the bus stop. God as a movie director has a rough Hollywood style meeting. Two men return to the scene of a past family tragedy and find love and laughter there. And finally, an epic adventure that only ten year old boys can dream up even as they live it, surviving the perils of hunting Santana, the Killer Rooster near a small village in Mexico. Read and laugh along with the hilarious characters that inhabit this silly little stories.

High school teacher Jack McCarthy endures a challenging day at an inner-city school in South Florida. During a rainstorm on the way home, he has an epiphany.

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).

Every shifter has a fated mate, the one being who's a perfect match. Unless fate makes a mistake? All her life Gina Grey has dreamed of meeting her mate, but she never expected that fate would bring her someone so horrible that she can’t stand to be in the same room as him. The clothing designer and entrepreneur also didn’t expect that her mate would be the person who stole her new retail location right out from under her! Drew Galina is back in Greysden and ready to open his new law practice in the small town where he grew up. His new neighbor Gina hates him, but that’s nothing new. ...

Funny Business is based around the theme of - what else - humor, and if you’re familiar with Jon and Guys Read, you already know what you’re in store for: an hilarious story.

West Coast, East Coast, hotwives all around. Kathleen Westerly is every man’s walking wet dream, tall, brunette with curves that won’t quit. Donnell can’t stop fantasizing about his neighbor’s wife and Jesse knows he’ll make their dream of sharing Kathleen with a black man a reality, so confident that they don’t even broach the subject with him before surprising him at his front door. Donnell is only taken off guard for a second, not wasting a minute before he agrees to their little plan. He can’t turn her down, looking so sexy and eager on his doorstep in her skimpy little ...

Cops in romance books are always so sweet and protective. Unfortunately, Evie’s life is no romance book. Bookstore owner Evie Fontenot has a mystery to solve. Someone is messing with her bookstore, and there’s no way someone is going to get away with ruining the successful business she created. Her friends insist she report the issues to the police, but based on her history with the law, she knows they’ll be no help. When she meets the bossy and rigid police chief, she knows she’s right. Jake Wilson isn’t sure what’s going on at Boozy Books, but there’s one thing he does know:...

T-Bin has been traveling through space for years to deposit its passengers on a new planet, to give them a new life. But now, mere days from arrival, Tanner can’t shake the feeling that there’s a more sinister plot at work.

Life as an asteroid wildcatter ain't easy! Hello, friends. The name's Christopher Columbus Jackson. When I set out to make my fortune as an asteroid wildcatter, I had no idea that I'd soon cross paths with a down-and-out warrior priestess of the Church of Jesus Christ of Post-Millennial Saints, Orthodox. If I'd known better, I'd have steered clear of her distress beacon altogether. But there are two kinds of people in this galaxy: those who believe in something bigger than themselves, and those who don't believe in anything else. I would soon find out what kind of a man I was.

Mum and Dad are going away on Important Business, so Uncle Ted comes to stay. Before long there's a guinea pig on the loose, Grandad's gone missing and her little brother is stuck in the railings like a giant squeaking tomato! Luckily Uncle Ted's around. He'll come to the rescue...won't he?

Underneath a 100-year-old copper beech, a mummy is about to die. When Tommy, the Viking PI, gets picked up on Halloween and driven into the thick Norwegian woods, the last thing he imagined was being taken to a murder scene. Well...No. The last thing he imagined was the corpse dressed up as a mummy, sitting at a table with Viking PI written in blood. Tommy has to start his own investigation to stay out of jail, find the real murderer, and save the relationship with his suspicious CSI girlfriend. This is the fourth book in the Viking P.I. series. A Quick-read mystery that is short and snappy...

“I even got to knock one thing off my bucket list when I traveled to Svalbard and drove a snowmobile over glaciers to an abandoned mining town, all in the name of love.” Business is booming for Tommy, the Norwegian “Viking PI”. Yes, it may be hard to believe, but people are actually choosing to hire this failed crime writer-turned private investigator. And his cases are getting even bigger… and darker. From mysterious buried bodies in unmarked graves, to bare-knuckle brawls and knife fights… Tommy really is finally seeing all that the ‘dark’ underworld of private ...

Save 10 lives with a paperclip, discover how a big banana can ruin your sister's holiday, make a new friend with a garbage bin, develop a taste for sheep's spleen and chips, bounce on a vampire's bed, rescue your dad from a dog and a spider, use a toilet roll to get justice, upset the neighbours with a pickaxe, eat a pizza that makes you fearless and imagine a world where teachers earn more money than a rock star.