Short Stories audiobooks

Novelle

By: Arthur Schnitzler

Narrated by: Riccardo Bocci

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In questo volume si trovano raccolti alcuni dei più noti racconti di Arthur Schnitzler. A tenerli insieme, la comune atmosfera di'incertezza che incombe all'interno dell'orizzonte in cui si muovono i personaggi. Le tecniche di scrittura sono differenti senza che ci sia la predominanza di una rispetto alle altre. Troviamo, così, un tipo di... Read more

Tales of Mystery

By: David Wright

Narrated by: David Wright

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Tales of Mystery boasts an eclectic menagerie of twisted tales, from classic pot boilers, to alien nightmares. Futuristic vampires, vengeful ghosts, hideous monsters and the occasional detective in over her head--a mystery lover's veritable buffet. Read more

Life Ceremony

By: Sayaka Murata

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, variou...

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existenceWith Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan,... Read more

Send Her Back and Other Stories

By: Munashe Kaseke

Narrated by: Chido Kunene

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In Send Her Back and Other Stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant black woman experience in the United States, equally awash with a myriad of challenges as well as the joys of exploring a new world. With sumptuous candor, her complicated, and often tangled, female Zimbabwean protagonists navigate... Read more

The World’s Worst Children

By: David Walliams

Narrated by: David Walliams, Nitin Ganatra, Eric Mok & Rebec...

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the world’s favourite author, David Walliams – ten cautionary tales and a delightfully dreadful cast of characters! Are you ready to meet the World’s Worst Children? Five beastly boys and five gruesome girls! Like Sofia Sofa – a TV super-fan so stuck to the sofa that she’s turning into one! ... Read more

Kummer aller Art

By: Mariana Leky

Narrated by: Katharina Quast

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

»Alle wirken innerlich blitzblank, nur in unserem Inneren sieht es aus wie bei Hempels unterm Sofa«, denkt sich Kioskbesitzer Armin, als er vergeblich versucht, erfolgreich zu meditieren. Und auch im Inneren der anderen Figuren dieser literarischen Kolumnen herrscht Unordnung: Frau Wiese kann nicht mehr schlafen, Herr Pohl ist nachhaltig... Read more

Als Doktor Möhrke durch Zufall den Unsinn erfand

By: Oliver Schlick

Narrated by: Christine Schaller

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein fröhliches Plädoyer für mehr Spaß und Unsinn! Frau Doktor Möhrke ist eine große Erfinderin, deren Experimente leider meistens schiefgehen. Dabei wünscht sie sich nichts mehr als eine eigene, richtig sinnvolle Erfindung!   Doch dann schüttet Doktor Möhrke aus Versehen Waldmeisterbrause in eine ihrer Mixturen, es gibt einen lauten Knall — und... Read more

On Troublesome Creek

By: James Still

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

James Still left eastern Kentucky for Europe in 1941 after enlisting in the US Army during World War II, leaving behind a recently published, semiautobiographical work of fiction, On Troublesome Creek.Even as he developed a broader worldview, his work continued to draw from the agrarian and regional sources of life in the Cumberland Plateau that... Read more

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

By: Jamil Jan Kochai

Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Suehyla El-Attar Young & Fajer Al-...

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

WINNER OF THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE, AND THE 2023 O. HENRY PRIZE

NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2022

"An endlessly inventive and moving collection from a thrilling and capacious young talent." —Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins.

A luminous new collection of stories... Read more

UNVEILING

By: Bola Edwards & Patrick Edwards

Narrated by: Grandma Wura

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Timid Okafor's ability to play the local Oja flute takes him to the palace where he became best friend to the young prince. However, a time comes when Okafor has to choose between friendship and wealth. This story teaches the child about loyalty, love and sacrifice. This is part of a collection series of Grandma Wuras story hut that comes with... Read more

Catalina Ghost Stories

By: Jim Musgrave

Narrated by: Shandon Loring

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

What would Natalie Wood do if she were a ghost returning to the scene of her death? Can a person be guilty of murder if he kills while walking in his sleep? Is the ghost of Cubs' legendary hero, Hack Wilson, haunting the club house on Catalina? You'll find out in this collection of haunting tales from the author and publisher of Horror on the... Read more

Appy Overcomes COVID

By: Dennis WC Wong

Narrated by: Jody Smith & Jeremy Smith

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

We find ourselves obsessing about the Corona virus, engaging with the news, clicking on every alert, and looking for certainty. Our children are sensitive to our moods and tones and get anxious themselves. Kids act out their feelings they can’t express in words. We can take responsibility for managing ourselves with health measures and cultivate... Read more

Sucedió en colores

By: Liliana Bodoc

Narrated by: Galileo Bodoc

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Cinco cuentos con pinceladas de amor, bravura y mucha magia, que despliegan el gran arte de Liliana Bodoc.
El diablo se enamora de Rubilda, la vendedora de manzanas más linda de todo el Mercado de las Rosas. Él intentará conquistar su corazón, con la ayuda de su madrina la bruja y sus milenarios hechizos. ¿Logrará su cometido? ¿Qué destino... Read more

Khwaab

By: Arunank Latha

Narrated by: Rakesh Rachakonda

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

మనిషిని ఏకాకిని చేసే ప్రేమరాహిత్యాన్ని, విద్వేషాన్ని, హింసని, వివక్షని ద్వేషంతో కాకుండా తన అక్షరాలనిండా ప్రేమ నింపుకుని తడమడమే అరుణాంక్ "ఖ్వాబ్" ప్రత్యేకత. ఈ లేఖా రచనలో మంచి భావుకత, సౌందర్యం వుంది. ఇప్పుడు అరుణాంక్ "ఖ్వాబ్ " లేఖలు రాయడం, అందునా ప్రేమని రాయడం మరిచిపోయిన మనందరిలో మళ్లీ ప్రేమలేఖలు రాయాలనే ఉత్సాహాన్ని తట్టిలేపుతుంది. విప్లవం, ప్రేమ... Read more

Don Camillo

By: Giovannino Guareschi

Narrated by: Oliviero Corbetta

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

La prima folgorante apparizione letteraria di don Camillo e Peppone, la coppia di amici/nemici più famosi della narrativa italiana, immortalati al cinema da Fernandel e Gino Cervi. Da una parte c'è don Camillo, un prete di un paesino emiliano. Alto e ben piazzato, appassionato di caccia, don Camillo tende a risolvere pragmaticamente e... Read more

Pen Pals

By: CK Timber

Narrated by: Ginger MacGregor

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Jase is an average joe who lives in England, and Elizabeth, five-thousand miles away, lives in California. They met online and began writing to each other. It was an innocent exchanged. After a while, their pen pal relationship blossomed into a series of erotic rendezvous, both in pen and in each other's arms. Fulfilling their fantasies, they... Read more

Los peligros de fumar en la cama

By: Mariana Enriquez

Narrated by: Mara Brenner

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Doce cuentos en los que lo terrorífico se infiltra en lo cotidiano. Doce relatos perturbadores que llevan el género de terror a una nueva dimensión. Una niña desentierra en el jardín unos huesos que resultan no ser de un animal; la bucólica escena veraniega de unas chicas que se bañan en un paraje natural acaba convertida en un infierno de celos... Read more

Winter Count

By: Barry Lopez

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams comes a timeless, intoxicating collection of evocative stories.A flock of great blue herons descending through a snowstorm to the streets of New York … A river in Nebraska disappearing mysteriously … A ghostly herd of buffalo that sings a song of death … A mystic who raises... Read more

Gigolo

By: Edna Ferber

Narrated by: Joe Barrett, Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautifully crafted collection of eight short stories by Edna FerberIn Gigolo, Edna Ferber delves into the minds of eight diverse characters from all walks and stages of life: a handsome, oft-pursued mechanic who finds himself falling in love; a new widower who moves into the home of his son and daughter-in-law; a wounded pilot who discovers... Read more

Bad Thoughts

By: Nada Alic

Narrated by: Nada Alic

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

An exhilarating and delightfully deviant debut story collection that, with comedic precision and compulsive irreverence, explores the most surreal and inadmissible fantasies of contemporary women.

“Nada Alic’s Bad Thoughts is lit up with the perception, wit, and cunning of Miranda July and Sally Rooney.” —T. Kira Madden, author of Long Live the... Read more

Gods of Want

By: K-Ming Chang

Narrated by: Catherine Ho, Natalie Naudus, Elaine Wang, Nanc...

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Startling stories center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American women in “a voracious, probing collection, proof of how exhilarating the short story can be” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice)—from the National Book Award “5 Under 35” honoree and author of Bestiary

“Wise, energetic, funny, and wild, Gods... Read more

What The Wind Blew In

By: Marilyn Wassmann

Narrated by: Marilyn Wassmann

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

WHAT THE WIND BLEW IN is a collection of stories for children written by Marilyn B. Wassmann, featuring six tales of adventure, fun, and learning. Read more

Kvarteret kärleken: Sexig rumba - erotisk novell

By: Desirée Coy

Narrated by: Axel Hansson

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Kvarteret Kärleken är fullt av människor som söker efter relationer och ibland hittar dem på oväntade ställen. Ynglingen Karl har blivit tvingad av sin mamma till den lokala dansskolan för att lära sig rumba, och därigenom få bättre framgång hos flickorna på tedansen. Tveksam och nervös går Karl på första privatlektionen hos dansläraren Paola,... Read more

The Velveteen Rabbit

By: Margery Williams

Narrated by: Sophia Austin

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This original, timeless classic has been treasured for generations—this edition has the original story from 1922.
Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.
This wondrous tale of the velveteen rabbit has delighted readers of all ages with its story of transformation and redemption through a child's unwavering love.
At... Read more