Humor Anthology

A baby rat freed from the bottom of a dumpster becomes a white ibis wandering the wet driveway after a storm. Goodbye, hello, goodbye. It was the garbage times; it was time for something else. A tale of two tales, connected by a mysterious sunlit portal.

It's that time of the year again, the holiday season. Between checkout lines a mile long, the office party hangover, battles with traffic, and delayed flights, what's better to do than to listen to The Worst Noel and laugh your holiday aggravation away? The collection features an eclectic mix of writers with playful, often dark humor as the common thread.

Horror, Humor, and Heroes is a collection of twelve short stories, one novella, and a preview for my next novel that should contain enough variety to entertain you readers. Sample some of my finest offerings, such as - a guardian wolf fearing the coming of man, a producer willing to do anything to bring the first pay per view live werewolf hunt to the world, and a zombie running for congress.

E se nella vita non esistessero momenti trascurabili? Dai calzini irrimediabilmente spaiati alla cartomante che predice un nuovo amore a tua moglie, il divertimento di vivere ogni istante (anche quelli che dimenticheremmo volentieri) ormai lo conosciamo bene. E non ci stancheremo mai di ritrovarlo. "Ogni singolo gesto, i sapori, l'aria, il tempo, la stoffa, la strada, la persona accanto, il profumo, il panorama, il vento, la porta, il sorriso. Tutto, tutto. La vita non finisce piú, se si sa comprendere ogni singolo momento di un giorno solo."

Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants - all have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Thomas Edison, and David Hasselhoff. In this critically acclaimed collection, Lydia Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy communions to run a stake through the heart of our fascination with famous people and pop culture.

Los Angeles and Lucifer are a lot alike. They both seduce and lure with promises of wealth, fame, beauty, or love. But those promises are often empty; and even when they’re not, there’s a price to pay.

Karel Čapek, zu Recht einer der berühmtesten und beliebtesten tschechischen Autoren, hat die Welt nicht nur mit dem Begriff des "Roboters" bereichert - er hat auch zahlreiche Krimi-Kurzgeschichten geschrieben, die an Witz und Raffinesse ihresgleichen suchen! Mit dabei: Der gestohlene Kaktus, Das Verschwinden des Herrn Hirsch, Tschintamanin und Vogel, Vom Kassenknacker und vom Brandstifter, Der gestohlene Mord, Der Fall mit dem Kind, Die Geschichte vom Heiratsschwindler, Das Gericht des Herrn Havlena, Die Briefmarkensammlung, Der Geschworene.

Eine Sammlung wunderschöner Geschichten, die durch die angenehme Stimme von Edgar M. Böhlke noch reizvoller wird und nicht nur Italien-Liebhaber verzaubert. Einer der bekanntesten Deutschen Schauspieler, Mario Adorf, lebt bereits seit über 30 Jahren in Italien. Und er kann nicht nur schauspielern, sondern auch wunderbar erzählen. Auf liebenswerte Weise erzählt er von seiner Wahlheimat und entlockt dem Zuhörer sehnsuchtsvolle Gedanken und das ein oder andere Schmunzeln.

A Doy and His Bog is a moving tail (intentional typo) about how two can come together and do stuff. What stuff you ask? Well, you are not allowed to ask.

O.J. Simpson in an alternate reality and blind ninjas ushering in the apocalypse are just two of the beautifully written tales in this seminal work of art, from the mind of a human being the likes of which God and the devil wholeheartedly agree upon. While drenched in comedy, Laughter's Cold Shadow takes on the darkest of subject matter: murder, rape, racism, the nuclear family, ninjas, Nazis, zombies, police brutality, drug cartels, hedonism, psychopathy, and more.

Consciousness. Memory. Identity. Death. Everything and nothing. Loss of Consciousness is a collection of stories that range from gritty dystopian satire to heartwarming fantasy. The author presents a dark vision of a future replete with automation and artificial intelligence, in which humans have committed their lives into the hands of machines, only to have their own consciousness fade. He pokes fun at the modern culture of safetyism, elitist millennial attitudes toward taste, and the ultra-woke’s penchant for finding offense in anything and everything.

Один артист спросил у Зощенко: - Как я должен читать ваши рассказы, чтобы завоевать у слушателей успех? - Вслух, - ответил писатель. К известному врачу однажды явился пациент с жалобой на апатию, отсутствие аппетита, затяжные приступы меланхолии. Как выяснилось, он перепробовал все средства, все лекарства, но ничего решительно не помогает.

An entertaining and surprising ride through an India you thought you knew.

"Cattivi Soggetti", unica opera letteraria di Luciano Salce per la prima volta in audiolibro letto dal figlio Emanuele, attore e regista. Un'antologia di racconti, di epoche differenti e umori diversi. "Cattivi soggetti" è ovviamente un titolo a doppio uso. Sono cattivi soggetti certi personaggi poco raccomandabili, ma anche soggetti cinematografici cattivi, cioè non piaciuti, non realizzati, cestinati, restituiti (quasi mai) dai produttori ai quali erano stati proposti. E una loro origine cinematografica si può ritrovare nel gusto per l'intreccio, la trovata, la situazione.

Cain’t Do Nothing with Love was the winner of the CIPA EVVY Audio Book Award 2014. All stories treat the most difficult topics - death, religion, family - with sharp humor and urgent respect.

The thirteen stories in Chris Tarry’s richly imagined debut, How To Carry Bigfoot Home, lay bare the insurmountable forces that determine who we are and who we become. From an out-of-work dragon-slaying father in “Here Be Dragons” to a family arguing aboard a rocket ship in “Topics in Advanced Rocketry,” the stories use fantastic settings, blazing wit, and imaginative circumstances to explore very human truths. The stories work to reconcile the public self with the private heart. To contemplate the monsters we carry home and lay bare for the ones we love the most.

Welcome to the peculiar and headlong world of Brian Doyle's fiction, where the odd is happening all the time, reported upon by characters of every sort and stripe. Swirling voices and skeins of story, laughter and rage, ferocious attention to detail and sweeping nuttiness, tears and chortling - these stories will remind listeners of the late giant David Foster Wallace, in their straightforward accounts of anything-but-straightforward events and of modern short story pioneer Raymond Carver, a bit, in their blunt, unadorned dialogue.

Während Fußballweltmeisterschaften versuchen sogar Deutsche, zu Brasilianern zu werden. Spätestens nach dem dritten Caipirinha in praller Sonne spricht man zumindest schon mal so wie Ailton: "Ailton nicht dick, Ailton schießt Tor, wenn Ailton Tor, dann dick egal." Ein Satz, der so quasi auch für mich gilt. So viel Weisheit wie bei Ailton findet man nicht alle Tage. ‚Ailton gut, guter Tag, Ailton nicht gut, morgen neuer Tag.‘ Daran sieht man auch, wirklich große Philosophie braucht keine Verben.

Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn’t that be great? But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where celebrity means nothing, where no one spoke your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and you had no way of calling home? How would your fame help you then? What if someone got hold of your cell phone? What if they spoke to your girlfriends, your agent, your director, and started making decisions for you?

Früher marschierten sie im Stechschritt, heute besuchen sie Bauchtanzkurse: Die Deutschen haben sich ganz schön verändert - nur mit Gefühlen haben sie es noch immer nicht so. Moritz Netenjakob erzählt die lustigsten Geschichten aus dem Alltag - zum Staunen, Wiedererkennen und Lachen. Dabei gelingt ihm das Kunststück, exakte Alltagsbeobachtung, beißende Satire und warmherzige Figurenzeichnung zu einem Panoptikum deutscher Befindlichkeiten zu verweben, das vor allem eins ist: Sehr, sehr komisch.