Funny Shorts

What is it like to be known as Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi's daughter? Or to have a mother as famous as Sharmila Tagore? Or to be recognized as Saif Ali Khan's sister? Or as Kareena Kapoor's sister-in-law? And where do I stand among them? Actor Soha Ali Khan's debut audiobook is at heart a brilliant collection of personal essays where she recounts with self-deprecating humor what it was like growing up in one of the most illustrious families of the country.

Follow the adventures of Chomps the shark. Chomps is a very friendly and adventurous shark. He enjoys swimming in the cold ocean. He has done this every day of his life. However, he does get bored doing the same thing over and over again. He wants to explore more of the ocean, but he is a bit scared to do so. He is afraid of getting lost. What kind of adventures will Chomps get into?

When your job is helping heartbroken people break back into their lives after nasty breakups, falling for the city's top security system designer definitely isn't in the business plan. Olivia Chen is the locksmith you call when love lets you down—part emotional therapist, part professional lock-picker. Marcus Rivera designs the security systems that keep people out, and he's the best in the business. When a high-profile divorce puts them on opposite sides of the same door, their professional rivalry ignites into something far more dangerous to their hearts. As they find themselves picking...

When Fred Dorflinger and his wife Carol visit their friends Alan and Loretta Hostetter and their 10 children, they expect a quiet, calm weekend. What ensues instead is a calamity of unexpected visitors, clumsiness, unforeseen events, and a very dangerous bowl of spinach dip. To say more about this short novelette would be to spoil the surprise. Winner of the 1983 John T. Ruhl Memorial award for humor. "I have seen people howl with laughter when Barry Clay reads this story aloud to his friends, but I really, really wish he would have spared me the acute embarrassment and not printed this for...

Fantasy becomes reality. If it doesn’t, it’s just another missed opportunity. Dressed to kill in her husband’s favorite comic book costume, every eye in the convention is glued to Lindsey like her cheerleading days. To feel that longing and desire that her husband showers her with, but from an entire room, it turns her on to no end. They can look all they want, but there’s only one who gets to touch, and she needs his touch now. Ethan knows he’s the luckiest man in the world. He doesn’t mind that every eye in the place is locked on his incredibly sexy wife. No matter who she ...

Don’t get me wrong. I love the manicured lawns and symmetrically planted flower beds in our beautiful neighborhood. There’s something undeniably picturesque about the row of houses, their paint colors all meticulously approved by a committee of self-appointed taste experts who seem to be more worried about the shade of beige than actual world problems. However, all this beautifully decorated façade comes at a great price—putting up with the HOA board members. Now, if you're unfamiliar with the phenomenon that is an HOA (Homeowners Association), allow me to enlighten you. You either ...

Christmas stories Stories Collection ******************* Young and beginner reader’s kids would get the most enjoyment from the tree titles for Christmas we selected In We hope you enjoy reading them to your kids, grandchildren. SEA OF LOVE <3 * <3 * <3 * <3 * <3 * <3 Just off by the sea in a small shabby shack, Lived Sarah’s whole family, a big crowded pack, Two parents, three brothers, and three sisters, too; With less room inside as all the kids grew. OH DEAR SAID THE DEER ************************************* "Oh dear," said the deer, "I'm so cold, what a plight! I've searched for a...

If you’ve just fallen into this beguiling treasure, then it’s in your best interest to just spank yourself and throw this book back in the vault where you found it. Because once opened, fabulous words that grow into sentences and paragraphs and stories will leave you with a massive rock-solid sense of the surreal. Leave now and we can both forget about this momentary plunge of lusciousness your eyes were about to feast on. Go! Prevail upon the legendary badassery life that is yours elsewhere. You have been thanked for your no-obligation, risk-free read of this secure blurb and I wish ...

Alana was a bad girl, the type who could rock your world at the same time she was breaking your heart. Until she met her husband. But she could only suppress the bad girl for so long. When her husband’s fraternity brother hits on her at their welcome home party, she lets him, leading him upstairs to her bedroom. She knows it isn’t right but she wants to let loose for once, let her hair down, become who she used to be for just one more night. She deserves it after the most stressful year of her life. Cam wants to give his beautiful wife everything she deserves, most of all, he wants to ...

She wants to be faithful. She also wants a baby, but that's proving to be a challenge... My husband and I have decided to finally have a baby. I’m fertile, but my much older husband is having problems breeding me. He gives me permission to cheat on him, but only for procreation, and only when he’s out of town. No problem, I think. There are always lots of guys flirting with me, and I can give them what they want while accepting the deposits I need to get pregnant. The library where I work makes the perfect location for a few hot quickies. But the more I cheat on my husband, the more I ...

Gus has traveled out of state and up to the city of Seattle to visit his daughter. She’s sharing an apartment with two criminology majors. Naturally their thoughts turn toward talking about crime and they ask Gus to talk about one of his cases. Since he doesn’t want to discuss anything too recent or else his daughter might know the people involved, he digs down deep into his memory banks for the perfect case from his first year as a sheriff. It also just so happens to be the first case he crossed path with Father Xavier. As he remembers it, Gus was called in to investigate an apparent ...

Don't you wish arrogant jerks had a literal red flag stuck on their head? You'd be walking along, see a cute guy, notice the huge red flag flapping in the breeze and you'd make a detour pronto! Unfortunately, life didn't work that way for some of the people in this group of thirteen stories. They were bamboozled by a charming man's flapping gums and married them. One woman thus inherited a delusional mother-in-law who believed every lie their precious son told them and actually supported his mistress! And how did the wife find out about this side piece? Text conversations. So what did the ...

When the existence of ghosts is finally proven, it’s also discovered they make an amazing renewable energy source and like all the gold rushes in history, the first real money is not made in mining the gold, but selling the supplies to mine the gold and related items or in this case to find and capture the ghosts. But when any new movement is formed there’s a counter movement like PLETS, People for the Legal Ethical Treatment of Specters composed of members enraged at the prospect that the ghost of dear uncle Bob, a life-long vegan might find its self powering a nearby burger franchise.

Bleak Punchline Joke Book set the bar somewhere in the dirt and lost it. Bleak Punchline Joke Book II accidently came across the bar again and buried it deep in the grubby earth. Bleak Punchline Joke Book III, the final act of humourless hubris in the trilogy, forgets about the bar altogether and settles for the dirt. If you have endured Sammy Madden’s musings so far, feel free to repent and absolve yourself of wrongdoing, or, if that doesn’t suit your intellect, please, by all means, lie down and roll around with the remaining swine.

Jack and Sunnie take a much needed vacation to Chicago. For the first time since college, the whole gang is back together, including Sunnie's ex-boyfriend slash Jack's best friend, Ian. During a night of drinking, when everyone else has gone to bed, Sunnie, Jack and Ian are the last ones standing. Until two of them are no longer standing, but laying, on top of each other. Jack's never been more turned on in his life watching his wife with her ex-boyfriend, the only other man she's ever been with. Chicago was just the getaway that they needed. Share Me In Chicago is a dual POV first time, ...

Who knew coming out as a lesbian in midlife would be such a challenge? After eighteen years of marriage, Rebecca finally admits the truth: she likes women. Tired of living a lie, she divorces her befuddled husband and sets out to explore life as a newly single lesbian woman. Concerned that Rebecca will fall for the first sweet-talking sapphic sister she meets, her sister Alice challenges Rebecca to go out on ten dates with ten different women to explore Seattle’s lesbian dating scene. And she’s recruited all of her friends to try to fix Rebecca up! Little did she know dating women would...

Four doctors. A medical conference on the other side of the state. Wandering eyes and hands that can only lead to trouble. Good trouble. When Danielle finally gives it to her husband for staring at every woman they see, she doesn't expect flirting with the first man she lays her eyes on to be quite as interesting as it turns out to be. But there he is, Dr. Mateo Alvez, looking just as good as he did all those years ago. Dalton can only stare as his wife slips her keycard to the handsome man in the lobby, tormenting her husband for his roaming eyes today and every day. It's what he deserves....

Is thirty years too long to wait for a second chance? High school best friends Sara and Sofia had always been inseparable, but neither of them knew that they were hiding a secret attraction. The girls lost touch after graduation, but thirty years later, they run into each other in a coffee shop, and it’s love at first sight. Or second sight, anyway. They’re both too old to fall this fast, but they don’t want to waste any more time. After years of being single, Sara and Sofia are about to find out that true love was worth waiting for – and their first love can also be their last. “...

It’s the tropical getaway they’ve all been wet dreaming about. After Jackson got his absurd wish, watching his wife with his best friend, his desire to see her with another man has only intensified. But his desire to see her with a woman, not just any woman, her best friend, it has him ready to rip through his swimsuit. Emmie still can’t believe she slept with her ex, in front of her husband. It’s awoken something in her, a longing for more. A longing for her gorgeous best friend, Jessa. It’s so out of character for tame little Emmie, she’s not convinced it’s really her doing ...

Miss Agatha Stapleton had long since resigned herself to a peaceful spinsterhood: warm tea, quiet mornings, and the comforting company of her three cats—Dagger, the brooding black tomcat with golden eyes; Rusty, a well-meaning ginger with a fondness for sunlit windowsills; and Earl Grey, a dignified gray tabby. Agatha's perfectly uneventful life is thwarted by the arrival of Mrs. Poke—a cheeky traveling witch with a mysterious satchel and a meddling mind. She claims Agatha’s been cursed… and now her beloved cats are men. As Agatha navigates vanishing fish, unwelcome flirtation, and ...