Humor Short

David and Ellie didn’t realize how much they have missed their friends, two other couples who had moved out of their modest neighborhood in a desert city for the comforts of the suburbs, until the day of Donald Trump’s election. Separated also from their daughter who lived hours away in California, they were in a funk. But, when Ellie discovers a repellent offering floating in the small Jacuzzi in their backyard, David is blindsided. Little does he know this is but the first in a chain of grisly events that would play out in their lives with devastating consequences.

If you like kooky mysteries, you’ll love Mabel and Irma. Short Read for that airplane flight! A feisty 60-something woman and a spirited spirit solve a murder. After a cross-country trip driving an F-150 and hauling a vintage camper Mabel Gold has proven to herself—and her doubting kids—that she still has it in her. She’s not sure what, but it’s something. Brooklyn smarts? Or, perhaps, after transplanting herself to Florida, it’s just sheer wacky-ness. Florida is full of it. But that’s what she needed when she left her two-timing husband and his bimbo new wife back in Long ...

Vi Baxter has always thrived in the controlled chaos of community theater—designing costumes, fixing last-minute wardrobe malfunctions, and dodging diva-level drama. But when a leading man collapses onstage during rehearsal, the spotlight shifts to something far deadlier than forgotten lines. With a detective’s instinct and her feline sidekick Figaro close behind, Vi finds herself unraveling a backstage mystery full of hidden motives, poisoned props, and suspicious castmates. As tensions rise and secrets spill, Vi must use every trick in the costume trunk to catch a killer—before the ...

A collection of twenty-four adventure, western and humor stories by the short story author John T. Watts. This is the first of two volumes. Volume II being comprised of different subjects and genres.

Andy and Danny boldly go where sensible people fear to tread. Just how stupid can two human beings be? Just Stupid! provides the answer to this vexing and important question. Winner of AudioFile's Earphones Award - 2005.

In vignettes both comic and sexy, the owner of a coffee shop recalls the day his first wife seemed to achieve a moment of simple perfection, while she remembers the women's softball game during which she was stricken by the beauty of the shortstop. A young couple spends hours at the coffee shop fueling the idea of their fierce love. A professor of philosophy, stopping by for a cup of coffee, makes a valiant attempt to explain what he knows to be the inexplicable workings of the human heart.

Twenty-plus intimate sci-fi stories from the heights and depths of the fractal universe. The stories you’ve dreamed of; the people you crave to meet; or would love to be. The aliens who’d make you shiver, or laugh. The huge risks of guiding your spacecraft here, or there. The adventures you’d have if only you had the nerve… Or the utter romance of doing that… The lighter side; the humour of orbital disasters and alien conflicts; the perils of ill-advised time-interference; the sheer romance of null-gravity love; the terrors of a leaky hull; the fear of a bullying boss when ...

Lily's friend Jasmine has come to town, and the two women have been talking about Sam. Author Sam Browning is on a spontaneous writer's retreat after his divorce, and an unexpected encounter with the beautiful Lily has him wondering what else he might find in the town of Ashbury besides his new manuscript. Lily's best friend Jasmine lives a few towns over, but she's staying in Ashbury for a few weeks, and Lily is excited to introduce her to Sam. Not only that, but it seems she and Jasmine have shared a boyfriend in the past, and Lily is warming Sam up to the idea. It sounds crazy, but as ...

Recipe for drunken laughter: take two best friends since childhood; add four shots of tequila each; sprinkle in a handful of secrets; shake.

Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, and fairy tales: Our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got here. It is the same on Discworld, except that beings, which on Earth are creatures of the imagination - like vampires, trolls, witches and, possibly, gods - are real, alive and, in some cases kicking, on the Disc.

It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim – nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts and breaches of promise. Eventually he becomes rather good at it and manages to go to pieces with his eyes open. But no sooner has Jimmy cut a wild swathe through fashionable London than his terrifying Aunt Nesta decides he must mend his ways. He then falls in love with the girl he has hurt most of all, and after that things get complicated. In a dizzying plot, impersonations pile on impersonations....

Presenting three sexy rock stars and three headstrong heroines in a sizzling romance series that hits you with all the happily-ever-after feels.

This collection of short stories is a good example of early Wodehouse. It is here that Jeeves makes a brief first appearance with these unremarkable words: "Mrs. Gregson to see you, sir." Years later, when Jeeves became a household name, Wodehouse said he blushed to think of the off-hand way he had treated the man at their first encounter.

Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. He’s been hailed a profit and a diagnostician, and a century after his death, his unique perspective on the anxieties, injustices, and rapidly shifting belief systems of the modern world continues to speak to our contemporary moment.

The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories is the second fabulously funny short story collection from the late acclaimed storyteller Terry Pratchett. A follow-up to Dragons at Crumbling Castle, this second batch of storytelling gems features stories written when Sir Terry was just 17 years old and working as a junior reporter. In this audiobook new Pratchett fans will find wonder, mayhem, sorcery, and delight - and loyal listeners will recognize the seeds of ideas that went on to influence his most beloved tales later in life.

Douze histoires variées, pleines d'émotions ou d'humour, pour les plus grands (8-12 ans). Au sommaire : "Émile et le microbe", "Le bracelet d'Anna", "Mes trois araignées", "Grenouille en prison", "Amour et chewing-gum", "L'anniversaire d'Alex", "Un chat toujours à l'heure", "Le mystère de la poubelle du 16 bis", "Adriane", "Qui a effacé mes exercices d'anglais ?", "Conversation avec un escargot", "Mon 'six cents pattes' ".

Ethan was ready to start a new life. He wasn't ready to start a new relationship.Leaving behind a high-pressure job in the city, 38-year-old Ethan is settling down in the small town of Timber Creek and taking ownership of Quill's End bookshop. He's ready to dive into a lifelong dream of owning a bookstore and slowing down. But the town of Timber Creek has more in store for him. While moving in, Ethan runs into Grace, a gorgeous blonde woman hired to clean the store before it reopens. Before he knows it, she's asking him out for coffee, and a fun date quickly becomes much more. Ethan thought...

The stories in this selection, taken from William Peskett’s four collections, Mango and Sticky Rice, Mist on the Jungle, Sweet Song of the Siren and The Day of the Tiger, cover the different ways in which people look at how the world works, for example in the clash between a scientific approach and a traditionalist Buddhist mode of thought. And some deal with the impossible yearnings that can motivate or destroy a person. Sometimes these may be shallow—a lust for drink, for money or for sex—and the characters absurdly comic, self-destructive or psychopathic. Sometimes the yearning may...

Gus somehow won the church raffle. It was a miraculous feat given that he’d never entered it-the church or the raffle. He suddenly finds himself with two tickets to paradise and one of them premade out for Father Xavier. Paradise in this case being the Caribbean Island of Saint Hubbins. They’re joined at the hotel by two couples that appear to be engaged in a tangled web of extra-marital affairs with each other. Gus isn’t too interested in the affairs of others until one of them ends up dead. Another person is arrested by the local police for the crime. It’s not that Gus feels he ...

Youth and camaraderie pervade this series of short stories in About a Boy, Stories, pertaining to an unlikely band of fledglings called Pineapple, Shoehorn, and Cantaloupe. Their nicknames apply to their hairstyles: the parted hair of Pineapple, the mohawk of Shoehorn, and a shave on Cantaloupe. They meet with Frock, a girl with a fashion statement, and Stroodle, an old wanderer. Big Teeth is their pandering adversary. Their school week is anything bandying another Saturday, and Pineapple as leader must decide amidst uncertainty whether he is a go-getter or the begotten heel. What an ...