Short Storytelling

Question: What does an oil tycoon’s death, a group of old poker buddies, and a batch of freshly baked oatmeal cookies have in common? Answer: Tabitha Clive! Amateur sleuth and baker extraordinaire Tabitha Clive is out to help save Emma’s son, Caleb, from standing trial for a murder he did not commit. The year is 1980 and Tabitha Clive loves baking, writing, and running the family farm in her quiet town of Kornville, Nebraska. Well, Kornville was a quiet small town until farmer Landon Turner discovered oil on his property, turning him into a wealthy tycoon overnight. The farmer’s ...

A long plus a long plus about three more long times a hundred more longs squared to the hippopotamus long time ago, a boy sat all by himself just outside of his family’s woodshed, drawing cats. The boy was waiting to be punished for drawing cats and he knew deep down inside of himself that he probably ought not to be drawing even more cats, but he honestly could not think of a better way to spend his time. He drew happy cats. He drew sad cats. He drew cats that couldn’t make up their mind just how they felt. He drew cats that were polka dot and cats that were striped and cats that were ...

In 2012 Pete Sortwell did something no one had ever done before: He wrote a book based entirely on Amazon product reviews. The book was so successful, he wrote a series. The series was so successful, he spent the next year releasing other projects he'd been working on. Now, for the first time, the stories he wrote while learning his craft are available.

I Was in Love with a Short Man Once is a collection of stories written from the perspective of a crazy Southern Irish gal. Follow her as she reflects on growing up as a child of limited means in South Florida; managing a self-financed college education; balancing work as a federal official with the demands of single motherhood; and navigating the amusing challenges of being a second-time-around wife.

Snack-sized, humorous journal entries about seeing the world from the perspective of a man whose favorite pastime is avoiding large groups of people. In this captivating book, Nick shares bite-sized observations gathered over his two decades on and off stage, delivering unexpected, funny, and heartwarming moments that will leave you in stitches.

If you're a fan of the Addison Holmes Mystery Series, you're going to love The Scarlet Chronicles! General Patton has nothing on Scarlet Holmes. She's beautiful, savvy, and smart, and if anyone can take down the Nazi's single-handedly, it's her.

A plaintive call for help from across the void of space draws the star Alberon's attention, and incites it to compassionate assistance. But how does a star help something so far away from itself?

The O Line Mystery Shorts books 1 through 11 comprise the complete dramatization of the short story mystery series. Originally released as podcasts, they have been remastered for audiobook listening. Book 6 features episodes: #24 "Recycled Fraud", #25 "Body Parts Bingo", #26 "Black Widow", #27 "Truth Will Out", Part 1 and #28 "Truth Will Out, Part 2". In episode 24, "Recycled Fraud", all of Ohlone Island is chipping in and volunteering to keep the islands resources afloat.

Rev. Dr. Steve Burt, the Congregational minister known as The Christmas Story Pastor, has been sharing his emotional holiday stories - modern parables revealing the true meaning of Christmas - for 40 years in print and in read-aloud programs. Millions have heard him read his stories on radio and television, with millions more seeing them in Family Circle or the Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

Immediately following the death of her father, fifteen-year-old Julie is shipped down to Somerset to stay with an aunt and uncle she hardly knows. The visit with Margaret, Paul and the baby, Sonia, gets off to a rocky start. Julie doesn't like being in the country, and she makes sure everybody knows it. Yet, now that her father is dead, she knows she will be unhappy when she returns to London. In a very bad mood, Julie runs away, and Paul has to go looking for her. In the meantime, she meets Rena, Margaret's eccentric, artist friend who is working in her garden. She bonds instantly with ...

The importance of stories hasn't gone down one bit as time has moved on. The way they are delivered has unimaginably diversified - the invention of writing definitely shook things up. Now two people didn't even have to be in the same room for a story to be passed between them. Today we have trillions of written words easily available to us just a click away.

In the spring of 2019, Michael Kingswood decided to embark on a Great Challenge, coordinating with one of his writing mentors and committing to sending him a new story every Sunday for a year. Many people attempt this kind of writing challenge. Most fail. Michael crushed it.

"Ogni storia per vivere nell'eternità deve finire e morire". Luca Ardia ci regala una serie di racconti che ognuno vive sulla propria pelle. "Storytelling?" come enigma racchiuso in una narrazione dove il confine tra realtà e possibile si fa labile fino a svanire. Il titolo include i seguenti racconti: "La vita di chi esagera", "Il bambino con la barba", "Castello di regoli", "I soli aspettano il sole", "Felice notte di halloween", "La genesi dell'amore nero", "Hardcore xxxmas", "Soliloquio nel silenzio", "Le idee nel mio paese", "Senza svegliarla", "Solamente la mia guerra".

Goin' Postal tells the story of a real U.S. postal worker dealing with crazy situations that the public never sees. From human heads in the mail to alligators on the loose in the building, this book is sure to make you laugh. The second book in this combo, The Creek, tells stories set in the same location, but each story is set in a different time period. The last story depicts how the people and stories of the past are still alive today.

A writer whose column appears in the Chattanoogan.com. Stacey's whimsical ways are guaranteed to tweak a funny bone on the coldest cadaver in the land — from amateur sleuth stories to historic political re-retellings. A book of short stories.

Prize-winning author Benjamin Hale's fiction abounds with a love of language and a wild joy for storytelling. In prose alternately stark, lush and hallucinatory, occasionally nightmarish and often absurd, the seven stories in this collection are suffused with fear and desire, introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love, jealousy, megalomania, and despair.

A lifetime ago, Richard was alone and adrift. It took his own suicide and a battle for his afterlife to turn things around. When he decided to haunt his own home he learned things worked differently in the phantom world and found himself hauled into court. Ghost Court.

A compilation of various short stories to draw you back into those special times and moments you may have forgotten. No worries, I will take you there. Whether I am taking you back to the 1950s nightlife or walking you through a field of wildflowers, my stories are positive and heartwarming. My goal is to make you feel something.

A Storytel tem a honra de apresentar uma série original para quem está em casa, para quem está lutando, para quem enxerga além. A cada sexta-feira, cinco grandes autores terão suas histórias publicadas em áudio, ficções que trazem esperança e novos horizontes. Ouça histórias originais de Francisco Azevedo, Chico Felitti, Martha Batalha, Pedro Vasquez, Vinícius Grossos, Edney Silvestre, Simone Campos e muitos outros grandes contadores de histórias de nosso tempo, que compartilham conosco o desejo de dias melhores.

Having a lack of confidence is a tough feeling. All your moves feel weighed down and you feel a lack of spirit. Life is a lot difficult when you feel low self-worth. But luckily, confidence is a skill set. Even if you don’t feel confident today, that does not mean you can’t feel confident in the future. In this Armani Archives, you will get short stories for mindset & creativity. You will learn how to build self-worth & confidence, unlock your inner creativity & think powerful thoughts, overcome fears to build courage and how to manifest your goals through the law of attraction.