Short Stories Humor

In the 1930s, the fictional town of Toad Springs, Florida, is filled with the adventures and daily whatnots of worthy, down-to-earth folk such as Flavey Stroudamore, owner of a three-legged gator named Precious who also just happens to have a birthmark of Jesus on his side.

In these and other stories, Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crises — writers, video game developers, actors, and other creative types who see things slightly differently from the rest of us. With its surreal, poignant, and sometimes squirm-inducing stories, Creative Types is a brilliant new offering from one the most versatile and talented writers working in America today.

Love is a fascinating aspect of human emotions that embalms withered souls with new hope and zest for life. Yet love manifests in myriad shades ranging from caring to conjugal, physical to psychological, empowering to escorting. This treatise accounts for the first volume of such fascinating and confounding attributes over a roller-coaster ride of 16 audio stories that will enthrall your human senses in a journey of close to 8 hours uninterrupted.

Love is a fascinating aspect of human emotions that embalms withered souls with new hope and zest for life. Yet love manifests in myriad shades ranging from caring to conjugal, physical to psychological, empowering to escorting. This treatise accounts for the second volume of such fascinating and confounding attributes over a roller-coaster ride of 16 audio stories that will enthrall your human senses in a journey of close to 8 hours uninterrupted.

Death. It’s a part of life and something we all must accept. Whether it be our own demise or losing a loved one, the experience of death is both sobering and surreal. My Dad Is Dead is a group of related short stories that explore that dichotomy through the eyes of a kid. In George Verongos’ second book, he turns childhood memories into “fictionally enhanced” tales (he made us say that, he’s trying to make it a thing).

Daha çok ozan olarak tanıdığımız Hasan Hüseyin'in mizah öykülerini topladığı kitaplarından "Made in Turkey" içinde yer alan beş öyküyü burada bulacaksınız. AleladeHarikulade, Burdan Çıktık, Operada Bir Vatandaş, Cüzzamlılara Mahsustur ve "Zıpçıktı" Osman Bey, eleştirel ve ironik bir mizah anlayışını daha dün yazılmışcasına sunuyor bizlere.

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.

Weihnachten - wie immer ein Fest! Neue lustige Geschichten über Weihnachten mit der buckligen Verwandtschaft: Wer hat eigentlich den Cousin dritten Grades eingeladen? Was hat Opa schon alles getrunken? Wo ist die Katze hin? Und wer, bitte, fährt die Schwiegereltern nach Hause? Weihnachten gleicht alle Jahre wieder einem Stresstest für die gesamte Familie. Erträglicher wird’s nur mit diesen Geschichten. Und komischer auf jeden Fall.

Un abogado que tiene su oficina en Wall Street narra la historia de Bartleby, un peculiar escribiente, quien un día, de repente, deja de escribir amparándose en su famosa fórmula: "Preferiría no hacerlo". Nadie sabe de dónde viene este escribiente, prefiere no decirlo, y su futuro es incierto pues prefiere no hacer nada que altere su situación. El abogado, desconcertado, no sabe cómo actuar ante esta rebeldía, pero al mismo tiempo se siente atraído por tal misteriosa actitud. Su compasión hacia el desobediente escribiente, hace de este personaje un ser tan extraño como el propio Bartleby.

Striving to become Australia’s greatest spy, Jared Pond goes on frivolous missions around the world, and keeps failing in spectacular ways. Pond, Jared Pond. Australia’s greatest spy and womanizer, according to himself. Equipped with a secret government pill that makes him immune to toxins, Jared carries out missions across the world for the Australian Prime Minister, Scurry Morrissette. Will Jared achieve his goals, and will the Pond Train reach its destination?

These are the stories of three boys living in Texas: one growing up, one dreaming, and one fighting to stay alive in the face of destitution and adversity. There's second-grader William, a shy yet imaginative boy who schemes about how to get back at his school-yard bully, Randy. Then there's Sam, a 15-year-old boy who dreams of getting a 1980 Mazda RX-7 for his 16th birthday but has to work at a Greek restaurant to fund his dream. Finally, there's Seff, a 21-year-old on the brink of manhood, trying to survive along with his roommate, working as waiters and barely making ends meet.

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

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.

What do the Minotaur, Rasputin, the first man hung for murder in America, and the Countess of Blood all have in common? No, they aren't related. They all appeared on the Bombay Family's Hit List! In this collection of Bombay Bedtime Stories, you'll find out what Bombays did before Gin Bombay came along. From pet dodo birds to Ancient Greece and twentieth century Russia, get the stories Bombay children have been told for thousands of years. Stories that have been shrouded in blood - sworn to secrecy . . . until now!

A short story/rant about why I heart (love) America. Warning: Written by a Liberal.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton è stato uno scrittore e giornalista inglese famoso per i suoi racconti ironici, a volte paradossali, ma sempre ricchi di morale e buoni sentimenti. Famoso per le fortunate serie di Padre Brown, in questo libro, pubblicato nel 1905, ci propone sette racconti in cui due amici, lo scrittore stesso e un ex-giudice (forse un po' pazzo) si trovano coinvolti in avventure paradossali.Cornice musicale: The Sycamore di Scott Joplin.

I ventuno episodi che compongono l'audiolibro formano nelle intenzioni dell'autore un resoconto accurato delle vicende umane viste attraverso gli occhi degli dei. L'ascoltatore viene introdotto nella narrazione attraverso una particolare lente di ingrandimento. Le dimensioni, le distanze perdono senso. Un caffè può diventare il centro immobile di un piccolo universo. I personaggi si muovono attraverso scenari che sono solo lo sfondo delle loro vicende quotidiane.

Lee Davidson takes the concept of journaling about dreams a step up in a collection of 31 comedic short stories about his own shut-eye narratives. As the protagonist in his stories, Davidson embraces the illogical aspects of dreams and wanderings of the imagination, as they place him in strange and humorous allegorical situations.

Accused of stealing gold from an infamous Irish street gang, paranormal psychologist Matilda Schmidt will die in exactly five days if she doesn't cough it up - guilty or not. With minutes ticking away and her office overrun by a leprechaun who's loopier than he is lucky, Matilda makes a deal with a demigod - give him one night in her bed and he'll help her locate the missing gold.

Im Normalfall entsteht ein Buch im Kopf des Autors. Da ist plötzlich diese Idee... Sie führt zum Pitch, zum Plot, zur Geschichte. Aber was passiert, wenn die Initialzündung nicht vom Schreiber, sondern vom Leser kommt? Dieser Challenge hat sich Fanny Bechert gestellt. Ein Jahr lang durfte ihre Community jeden Monat Einfluss auf eine Kurzgeschichte nehmen und die Autorin aktiv herausfordern, an ihre kreative Grenze zu gehen. Das Ergebnis ist eine bunte Mischung romantischer, spannender und lustiger Geschichten, die nur selten so verlaufen, wie es sich die Community vorgestellt hat.