Short Stories Humor

Tyler, Channing, and Sammy Clauster have descended on their childhood home, with significant others and four-year-old twins in tow, for another good old-fashioned Christmas. Overwhelming holiday magic, as always, comes courtesy of their mom, Claire. They know she’s thrilled to cook, wrap gifts, decorate, accommodate, play games, overprepare every Christmas Eve Eve Eve tradition, and still let Dad be known as the Fun One. It’s her thing, right? Maybe the family should have paid closer attention. Because this year, something is a little off-key - and it’s not just the carols.

The events unfolded in these tales, the collected shards of my fractured memories, are neither sworn truths nor total fictions. We all know that two different witnesses to the same history standing right beside each other are likely to have differing opinions as to what just transpired before them. Because perceptions, those mirrors to our souls that authors are damned to try and change in others, are born of deeper stuff than mere experiences of perspective. The weight of human experience strongly suggests that this is rarely accomplished by telling the naked truth.

Jorge Sanchez, a new and upcoming author has put together his first three published short stories into one book. They range from chaos breaking out at a funeral to a Birkenstock wearing Doctor. With his laid back story telling style and self-deprecating sense of humor you will find yourself chuckling out loud as you read along. Also, included is a bonus short story previously not published and only available in this edition. In this collection: Cheesecake, tea and a funeral. A boy, a stone and a throw, Skiing, wine and other minority disasters.

Do you love horror stories? The type of stories that you read to your children to warn them about the horrors of the night? Are you a newcomer to the genre, or are you a veteran that has already went through the raunchiest most devastating stories out there already? Well then, this is the perfect midnight “snack” for you.

Q: What do a set of LEGO toys, a mountain of cocaine, a glitter-dusted stripper, and a monkey who's grown tired of his dead-end day job have in common? A: Absolutely nothing. Except that they're all key elements in some of the stories featured in this dark and funny collection.

BETRAYAL. PASSION. MAGIC. And...WIGS! From the sparkling imagination of gifted entertainer Keke Palmer and her iconic alter ego, Lady Miss Jacqueline, comes a hilarious modern fairy tale about a wilting violet, a clash of personalities, and a multitude of hair.

This is the third collection of short stories recounting the author's adventures as a member of the New Orleans Police Department. There are a few more stories thrown in to give the book a bit of variety. Humor is a very necessary component of police work and is inescapable in any genuine tales of police adventures.

This delightful collection of short stories from acclaimed writer Susan Gabriel (The Secret Sense of Wildflower, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 and an Amazon number one best seller) is rich in humor as well as mystery and meaning. Whether white or black, living or dead, down home country or upscale urban, Gabriel's characters are quirky, poignant, and deep.

Topical, relatable, and just plain fun, these and many other stories in this collection deal with friendship, kinship, and the complexities of the modern world, and are sure to leave you with a smile.

A collection of short stories from The Big Garage on Clear Shot chronicles the offbeat lives of the colorful inhabitants of The End of the Road, a small town in Alaska.

The best-selling humorist returns to The End of the Road, Alaska, to bring to life a new collection of stories about the colorful inhabitants of the unusual town.

After a failed petition to change his career, Bill, the local pottery maker and town drunk, is coerced by his neighbors and king to join an expedition to hunt down and slay a mighty dragon that plagues their village.

Being a college football coach is the best job in the world. Unless you lose all your games. And the fans hate you. And the athletic department's biggest donor wants you gone. Bart Owen, head coach at Drake Park College, is one loss away from being fired. Good luck, Bart.

These are funny stories, seriously. Four short stories set in Oregon. Three in Eastern Oregon. One is about a scalawag who becomes a moonshiner. Another is about a scalawag who builds a mansion in the desert and becomes convinced that a pumpkin is an egg.

Humorvoll überspitzte Alltagsgeschichten, gewürzt mit Satire - das ist die Domäne von Uli Kreimeier, einem Meister der sicheren Sprach-Pointe.

Das perfekte Geschenk gegen den Alltagsstress – vom genialen Beobachter des täglichen Wahnsinns. Warum ist die Steuererklärung komplizierter, als Hebräisch zu lernen? Darf man lästige Werbeanrufer in den Wahnsinn treiben? Warum dauert es länger, die Wohnung saugrobotergerecht zu machen, als selbst zu saugen? Und was tun mit der Zeit, wenn der Lieferdienst meldet, dass die Sportsocken nur noch 9 Stopps entfernt sind? Der Alltag ist irre. Aber auch irre lustig. Wenn man ihn angeht wie Comedy-Bestsellerautor Tommy Jaud, hat man die besten Chancen, ihn mit einem Lachen zu meistern.

John Updike's 21st novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts. In between these two settlements comes Middle Falls, Connecticut, where Owen, an early computer programmer, founds with a partner, Ed Mervine, the successful firm of E-O Data, which is housed in an old gun factory on the Chunkaunkabaug River.

What do you get when you combine a chicken named Elvis, a locked diary, and a secret Violet Parker does not want share with her daughter? Seeing Trouble is the first of many short stories involving the characters of the Deadwood Mystery series.

Diese Anthologie enthält 20 Kurzgeschichten. Einige sind witzig, andere gruselig und die meisten sind einfach komisch.

A collection of seven new short stories from comedic to tragic which unfold in Manhattan, Brooklyn; Gainesville, Georgia; and Oaxaca, Mexico.