Short Stories audiobooks

دفتر الغربة

By: ممدوح حمادة

Narrated by: علي سطوف

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

حياة المغترب رحلة من الألم والسعادة، والضياع والاكتشاف، والنجاح والخيبة. هي لوحة تتصارعها الألوان المتناقضة الشديدة القتامة والشديدة السطوع. حياة المغترب رحلة تكون نهايتها بحسب المخطط العودة إلى حضن الأم، الأم التي حملته وسهرت عليه طفلاً، والأم الوطن الذي يحتوي على كل ذكرياته السابقة، ولكنها غالباً ما تنتهي بنهاية المغترب قبل انتهاء الرحلة أو... Read more

Venthazhalaal Vegaathu

By: Ku Azhagirisamy

Narrated by: V Vivekanand

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

கு.அழகிரிசாமியின் கதைகள் எளிய நடை, சித்தரிப்பின் லாவகம், உள்ளோடும் துயர இழை, அல்லது மிதக்கும் நகைச்சுவை, கமழும் மண்ணின் மணம் என அழகுகள் கூடி வந்தவை. தமிழில் சிறுகதைக்காக சாகித்திய அகடாமி பரிசு பெற்ற முதல் எழுத்தாளர். 'ராஜா வந்திருக்கிறார்' என்ற அவரது இந்தத் தேர்ந்தெடுத்த கதைகளில் கு.அழகிரிசாமியின் கதைசொல்லும் பன்முக ஆற்றலின் கீற்றுகளை வாசகன் உணர... Read more

Campos enteros llenos de flores

By: Martín Casariego

Narrated by: Joan Espinosa

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

La sombra del desengaño amoroso está presente en cada uno de los relatos que componen "Campos enteros llenos de flores", todos ellos, en el juego que nos propone Martín Casariego, obra del imaginario escritor fracasado Máximo C. En tres de estos relatos –los únicos escritos in intención de ser publicados—el narrador examina otros tantos momentos... Read more

دفتر القرية

By: ممدوح حمادة

Narrated by: علي سطوف

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

كانت القرية، دائماً، رمز البساطة في نظام حياتها وفي التركيبة النفسية للقرويين، الذين نادراً ما يعانون مما يسمى "فوبيا" أو "مانيا"، ويتقبلون كل ما يجري معهم كأمر طبيعي مهما كان قاسياً. كان هذا في تلك الحقب الزمنية التي كان فيها الزرع يطعم من يعمل بالأرض، ويوفر له فائضاً للبيع يؤمِّن له جزءاً مهمَّاً من تكاليف حياته. أمَّا بعد أن أصبحت الزراعة... Read more

The Complete Short Stories

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 40 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, all of Lawrence's sixty-seven short stories are collected in a single volume. The settings range from the scenes of his Nottinghamshire boyhood and the mining community he grew up in, his teaching years and to the world of his travels from Australia to South America and Europe. But the stories always encompass the eternal in... Read more

The Delicate Prey

By: Paul Bowles

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson & Raphael Corkhill

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Bowles’s classic collection of short stories“All the tales are a variety of detective story,” wrote Bowles of this, his first short story collection, “in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is in the motivation for the charcters’ behavior.” In such stories as “A Distant Episode” and How Many Midnights,” Bowles pushes human... Read more

I Walk Between the Raindrops

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: T.C. Boyle, Cheryl Smith, Jason Culp, Derek Per...

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking InIn the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In “Thirteen Days,” passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And... Read more

The Stories of Paul Bowles

By: Paul Bowles

Narrated by: Mike Ortego & Raphael Corkhill

Length: 28 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“Bowles’s tales are at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth. His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirely its own.” —Tobias WolffAn American cult figure, Paul Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs,... Read more

Points in Time

By: Paul Bowles

Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this intense and brilliant book, Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing experience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader on a journey through the Moroccan centuries, pausing at points... Read more

How We Disappear

By: Tara Lynn Masih

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan, Erica Sullivan, Shaun Taylor-Corb...

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers listeners transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone—runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie.From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from rural Long Island to postwar... Read more

A Distant Episode

By: Paul Bowles

Narrated by: Tom Zahner & Raphael Corkhill

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A Distant Episode contains the best of Paul Bowles's short stories, as selected by the author. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Jay McInerney. Read more

Too Far from Home

By: Paul Bowles

Narrated by: Tom Zahner, Raphael Corkhill, Mike Ortego, Cher...

Length: 24 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A striking collection of stories, poems, letters, travel essays, journal entries, excerpts from three novels, and more—including the complete text of The Sheltering Sky—from one of the most revered authors of the twentieth century Read more

Rainbow Rainbow

By: Lydia Conklin

Narrated by: Julia Weldon

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A fearless collection of stories that celebrate the humor, darkness, and depth of emotion of the queer and trans experience that's not typically represented: liminal or uncertain identities, queer conception, and queer joy



In this exuberant, prize-winning collection, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming characters seek love and connection in... Read more

Dhak Chhuk Dhak Chhuk

By: Peeyush Shrivastava

Narrated by: Sumriddhhi Shukla

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The morning rush hour brings a fresh wave of breath in Sneha's life. A little talk here, a little thought there, a sudden flash of reality and then everything goes glum. Witness this journey through Sneha's heart. Read more

20 Cuentos Urgentes Para Un Tiempo Lento

By: José-Reyes Fernandez

Narrated by: Luis Carballés, Susana Gil, Joe Cunalata, Jose ...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Si prescindimos de todo, nos queda lo imprescindible, que es lo esencial.¿Por qué los vampiros dirigen el Consejo de Administración de los bancos? ¿De qué agua del Reino de las Siete Fuentes beberías sabiendo que cada una te concederá un fabuloso deseo, pero al mismo tiempo se cobrará un doloroso pago? ¿Qué tributo impondrías a la muerte si... Read more

Z miasta

By: Ernest Jezionek

Narrated by: Maciej Like

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Znoszone rękawiczki, stara maszyna do pisania, wysłużony holownik z dusząTytuł "Z miasta" nawiązuje do stałej rubryki, drukowanej w przedwojennej "Gazecie Gdańskiej". Bohaterami dziewięciu opowiadań są postacie, których nazwiska przez chwilę się w niej pojawiły i dzięki temu zagościły w świadomości gdańszczan. Ludzie ci nie zostawili po sobie... Read more

Niosący światło

By: Magdalena Kałużyńska

Narrated by: Krzysztof Plewako-Szczerbiński

Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Uważaj, czego sobie życzysz! Słyszysz różne głosy? Widzisz dziwne postacie? Twoimi przyjaciółmi są mówiące po ludzku zwierzęta i niewidzialni towarzysze? Boisz się o swoje życie, a nie wiesz dlaczego? Być może zastanawiasz się nad podjęciem leczenia... Czy słusznie? "Niosący światło" to kipiel mrocznych żądz i krwiożerczych instynktów,... Read more

Ein ewiger Sonntag im Gemüt: Die schönsten romantischen Novellen und Erzählungen - Abridged

By: Eduard Mörike, Joseph von Eichendorff, Gottfrie...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 20 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Romantik ist weit mehr als Träumerei, sie ist eine wahre Revolution des Herzens. Die schönsten Revolutionen vereint das Hörbuch mit diesen Werken: Kleider machen Leute (G. Keller), Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (J. v. Eichendorff), Das Erdbeben in Chili (H. v. Kleist), Der Sandmann (E.T.A. Hoffmann), Das Marmorbild (J. v. Eichendorff), Romeo... Read more

Sfurtidayak Katha

By: S H Joshi

Narrated by: Neha Naik

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

भारतावर अनेक परकीय आक्रमकांनी सत्ता गाजवली. कपटी औरंगजेब व धूर्त इंग्रजांनी ह्या देशातील रयतेचे अतोनात हाल केले. ह्या परकीय आक्रमकांवर जे योद्धे तुटून पडले, ज्यांनी ह्या आक्रमकांचा बीमोड केला अशा शूरवीर रत्नांची, त्यांनी केलेल्या पराक्रमाची, स्वातंत्र्याच्या बलिवेदीवर त्यांनी दिलेल्या प्राणांच्या आहुतींच्या गोष्टी 'स्फूर्तिदायक कथा' ह्या... Read more

The Family Izquierdo

By: Ruben Degollado

Narrated by: Rogelio T. Ramos, Thom Rivera, Kyla Garcia, Fra...

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love—and a curse.The tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse and is dying; eldest son Gonzalo’s marriage is falling apart; daughter... Read more

Boys, Beasts & Men

By: Sam J. Miller

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Vikas Adam, Kelsey Navarro, Kevi...

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In Nebula Award–winning author Sam J. Miller’s devastating debut short-fiction collection—featuring an introduction by Amal El-Mohtar—queer infatuation, inevitable heartbreak, and brutal revenge seamlessly intertwine. Whether innocent, guilty, or not even human, the boys, beasts, and men roaming through Miller’s gorgeously crafted worlds can... Read more

Snow Shorts, Vol. 3

By: Charles F. Millhouse, Bobby Nash & Bernadette J...

Narrated by: Stuart Gauffi

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

SHORT STORIES! BIG ACTION!Declassified at last! Snow Shorts delve into the adventures of Abraham Snow, his family, and his friends in short, bite-sized action/thriller tales. Volume 3 contains stories featuring Abraham Snow, Elizabeth Walker, and Archer Snow.Snow Short #7: Snow Heart featuring Abraham Snow by Charles F. MillhouseTrouble finds... Read more

What We Fed to the Manticore

By: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

Narrated by: Neil Shah & Nikki Massoud

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In nine stories that span the globe, What We Fed to the Manticore takes readers inside the minds of a full cast of animal narrators to understand the triumphs, heartbreaks, and complexities of the creatures that share our world.Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s debut collection... Read more

A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times

By: Meron Hadero

Narrated by: Emebeit Beyene, Dele Ogundiran, various narrato...

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning Ethiopian-American author Meron Hadero’s gorgeously wrought stories in A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times offer poignant, compelling narratives of those whose lives have been marked by border crossings and the risk of displacement.Set across the United States and abroad, Meron Hadero’s stories feature immigrants, refugees,... Read more