Short Stories Humor

In the town of Name Pending, Wyoming, Elijah Potbury does brisk business as the territory's only practicing necromancer. For a reasonable fee, he'll raise any friend or family member. Stories contained in this fourth volume: "The Ravenous Man-Eater": Mr. Seven, owner of the airship Azincourt, assigns Professor Hemplewick the task of creating a many-tentacled, armor-plated monstrosity in the form of a giant slug to work in the engine room of the Azincourt. A reanimated human brain from a freshly deceased corpse is needed to power the creature, for which Seven turns to Potbury. Aware of ...

To listen to The Little World of Don Camillo is to travel to the valley of the River Po, Italy's widest and most fertile plain, with its unique atmosphere, culture, and natural history. And to do so in the incomparable company of a cast of fictional characters who testify to the exquisite humor and humanity of their creator. Here, eternal forces grapple with the absurd drama of everyday life, and hilarious and unearthly things can happen.

Yes, it's Volume 2 of TIW shorts! Yet another collection of totally pointless exactly 500 and exactly 200 word nonsense to entertain you while doing whatever you do when reading. I hope you enjoy these short snippets just as much as you enjoyed Volume 1. Thanks again to Brian and all the other Iron Writers for making The Iron Writers phenomenon the success that it already is. If you are 'up to the Challenge', then go to... http://theironwriter.com/

Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X, he is back with Binge, 60 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that he can also be really funny.

I'm so bored at home! My husband makes plenty of money so I'm not forced to work, but I need to do something! I've started up a little business making home cooked meals for my neighbors and that's fun and all, but I need something a bit more... wild. I've been teasing these three college boys for awhile now. Whenever I go over to their house I can feel their lusty eyes all over my body. I'm a married woman, but if they wanted me... would I let them?

Odelia Grey has always disliked Friendship Mall, especially at Christmas time. On her last visit, she was suspected of bumping off Santa Claus. On her most recent trip, Odelia and her mother are nearly arrested for inciting a riot over a parking space. Christmas shopping has never been so funny.

Rekindle cherished memories, share heartfelt laughter, and experience the simple joy of storytelling—one delightful tale at a time. Do you long for stories that transport you back to the "good old days"? Are you searching for heartwarming tales that celebrate life’s precious moments, spark lively conversations, and bring a smile to your face? Perhaps you prefer books that are easy to read, with relatable characters and nostalgic settings that feel like home. If so, this book is exactly what you’ve been looking for!Inside this uplifting second Volume in the *Golden Memories series ...

In You Can’t Be Serious, can psychologist Dr. Greg Chambers do anything to help the peculiar people he meets? In twelve short-stories laugh along as Greg encounters unusual police officers, a lady whose mission is to improve all men, a fanatical helicopter-parent, an eerily talented barber, feuding church employees, a neurotic comedian, a pastor who’s run out of sermon ideas, and many more. Carol Cramer, his volcanic assistant, shines as Greg’s down-home foil and an uncanny judge of people.

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.

This book provides 125 short stories or brief scenes for you to chew on, depending on your mood at the moment, or what is happening in your life. These short stories reflect topics that happen to all of us at one time or another, or provide a trigger to our imagination, making us wish we had experienced them or hopefully could someday. Perhaps some of them we hope we never experience. This book covers romance, spiritual thoughtfulness, silliness and humor, satire, the beauty of nature, inspiration, and interesting stories about life. Be aware that the book comes with some warnings and ...

Welcome to the preview of Funny Stories and Knock Knock Jokes Bundle. This bundle consists of two audiobooks.

Innocence Blake needs a mentor. Fate provides Irving Burns and his casebook. He's spent four decades in Japan and, oh, the cases he's seen. The series traces their humorous and heartwarming friendship over the course of three years and takes them from Yokohama and Mt. Fuji to the Zen temples of Kamakura and snowy Sapporo. The trilogy includes Thursdays in Yokohama, Fridays in Kamakura and Saturdays in Sapporo.

This book was previously published as "The Curvy Reporter Gets Punished" by Reba Bale She wants to land the big story, but instead she’s going to land right over his knee! Molly is a junior reporter at Channel 7 News trying to get ahead despite her curves. Her boss promises her a promotion if she can bring in a big story during ratings week and Molly finally sees her chance to get the lead reporter spot. If only she can find a good story… When her friend Rebecca tells Molly about visiting a special “Spanking Therapy Clinic”, she is determined to expose the clinic and get her ...

Ellie and Brenda met at an airport. Here’s a sweet, cute, and funny short story that captures the mysterious allure and the utter misery of plane travel, and those sometimes awkward first moments when strangers meet. Can you really meet someone special at the airport?

Canceled Plans? –Check! Panic and Fear? – Check! Self- Isolation? – Check! Missing Friends? – Check! Gaining Weight? – Check! Binge-Watching TV? – Check! Lengthy Self - diggings? – Check! Hope? – Check, check, check! Who would have thought that Global Pandemic, Self-Isolation, Cluster, and a Lockdown were to become the trendiest words in 2020? Who would have imagined the world would freeze and people would stay home shattered with fear, panic, uncertainty towards their future? How do we adjust to this changing reality, when none of our questions have answers when plans turn ...

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...

From the award-winning author of Occupational Hazards come nine more tales of blue-collar fiction, including The Destroyer (sequel to Jar Baby) and the author's autobiographical Memoir of a Murderer, narrated by an all-star cast of performers. There's horror, there's humor, there's horrific humor. It slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries. Treat yourself. You deserve it.

This was previously published as “Forbidden Romance” episodes 1-15 on Kindle Vella. Forbidden fruit tastes even sweeter the second time around... I never expected to be a widow at thirty-five. I also never expected to be homeless and bankrupt, living in my childhood bedroom. And I really never expected that I’d be falling for my sister’s ex-husband. Again. Liam and I had one night of passion twelve years ago before going our separate ways. But now that we’ve found each other again, he wants more than one night. He wants forever. I try to resist him, but Liam is the master of ...

Wodehouse weaves his wit through a wide collection of terrifying aunts, miserly uncles, love-sick friends, and unwanted fiancés. Bertie gets into a bit of trouble when one of his pals, Bingo Little, starts to fall in love with every second girl he lays his eyes on. But the soup gets really thick when Bingo decides to marry one of them and enlists Bertie's help. Luckily, he has the inimitable Jeeves to pull him out of it.

This is a collection of the fourth six short stories in the Caverns and Creatures series.