Short Stories Humor

Michigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure trove of storytellers, poets, and historians, all seeking to capture a sense of Yooper Life from settler's days to the far-flung future. Since 2017, the U.P. Reader offers a rich collection of their voices that embraces the U.P.'s natural beauty and way of life, along with a few surprises.

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.

Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of a creaky swing and hand-cranked ice cream and cicadas chorusing in the sultry night air. Let's talk about how things used to be in the South - and for some of us, they way they still are. Welcome to the world of Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes, where award winning authors Deborah Smith, Sandra Chastain, Virginia Ellis, Debra Dixon, Donna Ball and Nancy Knight come together for the first time to create this poignant, humorous collection of nostalgic tales.

An implant that gives moral advice whether you like it or not, an irritable galactic ambassador examining Earth’s religions, a future where love can’t happen without litigation, pushy alien anthropologists without regard for the human need for privacy, discrimination against an artificial intelligence in a multicultural world, alien sex - love in the time of deformity, neighborly nitpicking made easy by Computer Court, the excruciating reality of Martian music, invasion of the toe snatchers, something crunchy on the menu, and a transgenic pig dog at war with an android nemesis.

Chuckle along with the best 19th-century humorists, who provide you with tall tales, puns, and witty ripostes. No guarantees of political correctness, but they're sure to tickle your 21st-century funny bone! Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous -- "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" -- and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this anthology collects several of Twain's own pieces in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by 14 of Twain's contemporaries.

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.

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.

Pickled Bananas is a collection of 14 quirky short stories from the mind of Douglas Schwartz.

Colonies require support and expansion to other planets means shipping supplies to them. Pirates love long supply chains and not even Elon Musk is invulnerable, although there is reason to believe he might do slightly better than cumbersome governments. This highly speculative look at the perils of building the first functional Mars colony stars Elon Musk.

A delightful collection of humorous classic tales by some of the world's greatest racconteurs.

An awful poet, dumped by his girlfriend, roams through Italy, where he clearly doesn't belong; an oil delivery man falls in love with a clumsy woman and becomes even clumsier than she is; and a six-year-old and his father kill over 200 flies at a horse farm while the father wonders about life and death. Poor Advice and Other Stories, with its mix of the serious and the absurd, reveals Lou Gaglia's humor, imagination, and range.

This book consists of 27 short stories of murder, mystery and mayhem. This is book one in a series of eight short story compilation books.

The star of this crime comedy short story knows the secret to being a real man in full and he needs to share it with you. Of course, you have a full pitcher of beer and all his chaos is someone else's problem. This funny wild ride ends with his very questionable wisdom.

A collection of 23 of Twain's funniest stories and essays, ranging from tongue in cheek to the fantastic.

This is a humorous, episodic novel of dark fantasy and science fiction, composed of the four novellas Amy and the Ankylosaurus, Helen and the Evil Elves of the Elder Gods, Sithe in the City, and Dragon vs Dinosaur. It begins when Magnus creates a device to open portals to other quantum universes so he can show his ex-girlfriend, Amy, real dinosaurs. This goes awry when Amy goes through the portal and he has to rescue her, accompanied by his fellow scientist Helen, Amy's best friend.

Oliver Smith, known as Food to his friends, so called on account of the fact he can’t afford to feed himself, is a vagrant. After being turfed out from the family home by his wife, Food moves into a lads’ flat in the big city. However, things are not so easy for Food as he struggles with advancing his nonexistent career, housemates who refuse to give him a break, as well as the government, who Food is convinced are stalking him. These are the least of Food’s problems, however, given that due to his impoverished nature, he struggles on a daily basis to even feed himself.

An irreverent collection of 11 anti-corporate short stories by William Hrdina. Instead of your typically dour stories about the plight of the working man- here you will find satirical and funny anti-corporate fairy tales as told by a sarcastic elf with tendency towards the surreal.

During the 2020 pandemic, a man began driving for Uber in a small college town. Little did he know the deep truths he would discover about himself, the profound insights into the human condition…. Actually, that’s bullshit. What he really discovered was a cash cow: drunk kids with too much money and a darth of local drivers. But all is not easy money and smooth tones vibin’ in the background. These kids are crazy, and crazy kids mean crazy stories.

"Salades" propose sous forme d'abécédaire la recette de l'auteur : une solide pincée de distanciation humoristique, un nuage de nostalgie, un regard bienveillant sur l'enfance mais goguenard sur les adultes, un zeste de poésie dilettante. À chaque lettre de l'alphabet un mot-clé, autour duquel l'auteur développe ses "salades", sous forme de textes courts : chroniques, nouvelles, essais... Dans cet abécédaire éclectique et badin, un dénominateur commun est proposé au lecteur : le sourire.

Am I the Asshole? is the hilarious book of all the funniest "am I the asshole" moments. As read by Patrick Kelly Shannon, this laugh-a-minute audiobook will have you questioning the life choices of some definite assholes in this life. This book comes with absolutely no judgment on the stories featured and is 100 percent up for you to decide what you think of the characters featured within the short stories.