Storytelling Fiction

This collection of comedy audiobooks read by Chris Dabbs includes The Village Idiot Reviews, The Office Idiot Reviews, and Dating In The Dark: sometimes love just pretends to be blind. In The Village Idiot Reviews , join Brian as he tries to woo the local shopgirl. Will passing out face down in superglue while trying to make her a gift hinder his chances of going out with her? In The Office Idiot Reviews, hear about Hogsbottom Plugs' idiotic workforce as they explain their recent life events through reviews of things they've bought.

This is the second volume in the collection of Chris Dabb's readings of Pete Sortwell's comedy books, containing More Village Idiot Reviews, More Office Idiot Reviews, and Bride and Gloom: sometimes love is better off blind. In More Village Idiot Reviews, Frederick has injured his nipples in a vicious moped accident while on his honeymoon and no longer feels like a man. Meanwhile, Ethel has discovered who made her shopping trolley explode last year.

Lucien Bandemyr, Crown Prince of the Qorathi Empire, looked forward to adventure, excitement, and glory from his first campaign outside of the Empire's star systems. Instead, he found frustration and betrayal, as an assassination attempt, coupled with an unexpected military catastrophe, put him squarely in the center of a galaxy-wide struggle for power. With his father near death, his most trusted advisors not above suspicion, and a Republican-minded princess seemingly determined to set his mind awhirl, Lucien sets out to right the military situation.

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.

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

The 85% Man and Lessons from Lucille is Bob Mack Peak's well-crafted, uplifting, heart-felt, and romantic self-help epic. It's a lighthearted look at the differences between men and women. Peak strives to prove the well-known, open proposition that "Everything my mother told me about women is true... and I can prove it." The book's flowing narrative offers the reader a delightful journey toward discovering life's truest reward-unconditional love.

We all have stories to tell, but not everyone gets the mentoring and training or encouragement to become a great storyteller. Founded a quarter century ago, Girls Write Now has empowered young women and gender-expansive youth to harness their creative talents, gaining confidence, skills, and a community supporting them in sharing stories the world needs to hear.

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.

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.

Over the years while writing, directing, and acting at radio theater workshops and in the Mark Time Radio Show performances at Minneapolis' CONvergence science fiction conventions, Brian Price and Jerry Stearns found that they shared a love for classic Beat poetry, Lord Buckley, and prose poems, so they started doing some of their own. This is a collection of their unique hybrid of humor, music, character, and performance.

The story of a starry-eyed performer who dreams of performing with the Rockettes, F--ker, The Christmas Mouse, is a heart-warming and ludicrous tale of holiday dreams come true.

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 Child’s Personal Twilight Zone: Imagining New Possibilities highlights three stories originally published in Reimagining The Twilight Zone: A Young Fan’s Stories, a speculative memoir by Elayne Zalis that explores how The Twilight Zone sparked her imagination when she was a child in Miami in the late 1950s and early ’60s. The young TV fan and the woman she becomes collaborate across space and time to reimagine their favorite episodes of the classic television series. While tapping into a shared memory bank, they retreat to a personal Twilight Zone that nurtures creativity and invention.

Witches only exist in stories. Everyone knows that. But what if the stories are real? Four friends. Four truths. One nightmare. If you wander into the wood. If you hear scratching sounds from the old quarry. If you go too close to the edge. Watch. Out.

The grandson, son, and brother of Pentecostal preachers, Roger Scott Jackson became a full-time writer-actor after working at more than 100 jobs, including shoeshine boy, fish gutter, taxi driver, bartender, reporter, and teacher (English, speech, and debate). He says, "Though Brother Sam is not strictly autobiographical, he is fabricated from my own experience, which is to say, I start by telling the truth, then heap on lies."

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?

These are delightfully fun and funny dog stories! Let these true funny fur baby stories delight and entertain you along with your family.

They came in peace; unfortunately the good folks of Little Lump, Texas, didn't get the memo. They're really embarrassed, especially Gertie, who managed to shoot down several of the alien's space ships with her holy land-to-air rocket launcher. Little did she realize in doing so that she would be unknowingly creating a far bigger danger for Little Lump that could spell doom for them all.

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.

My Pet Rattlesnake is an interactive story between storyteller and children. Feel free to adlib your own words. Usually, whatever the children say, the storyteller says something different. Do you want to hear about my pet dog, my pet cat, or my pet rattlesnake? (If students respond dog or cat, you say "Sadly, it ran away." And pretend to wipe away the tears from your eyes for several dramatic seconds.)