Short Stories audiobooks

O garoto - O conto que deu origem ao livro (Integral)

By: Danilo Barbosa

Narrated by: Daniela Schimitz

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Vanessa chegou aos 60 anos com a vida que muitos sonham, mas poucos conseguem. Artista plástica renomada, passou os anos transformando a existência em arte, sendo aplaudida por críticos e aspirantes a pintor de todo o mundo. Excelente mãe e avó, mas com o tempo esqueceu os seus desejos e prazeres como mulher. Até que após uma conversa por e-mail... Read more

Deathbird Stories

By: Harlan Ellison

Narrated by: Luis Moreno & Harlan Ellison

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than three decades this singular collection of stories in which the New Gods of freeways and slotmachines, internal combustion deities and evil so enormous that it swallows the streets in shadow has compelled theattention of not only readers of imaginative bent, but the praise of hard-line literary critics. One cannot codify... Read more

Inheritors

By: Asako Serizawa

Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Ren Hanami, Catherine Ho, Greta Ju...

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"This splendid story collection is a sword through the heart."--Ben Fountain

From the O. Henry Prize-winning author comes a heartbreakingly beautiful and brutal exploration of lives fragmented by the Pacific side of World War II.

Spanning more than 150 years, and set in multiple locations in colonial and postcolonial Asia and the United... Read more

F*ckface

By: Leah Hampton

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

F*ckface is a brassy, bighearted debut collection of twelve short stories about rurality, corpses, honeybee collapse, and illicit sex in post-coal Appalachia.

The twelve stories in this knockout collection—some comedic, some tragic, many both at once—examine the interdependence between rural denizens and their environment.

A young girl, desperate... Read more

A bela perdida e a fera devassa (Integral)

By: Josy Stoque

Narrated by: Daniela Schimitz

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Valentina é mãe, divorciada e precisa voltar ao trabalho para sustentar a casa. No escritório de advocacia, o promotor William se mostra um homem tentador, trocando sorrisos safados e olhares devoradores que a deixam perdida, sem saber como retribuir. Para complicar a situação, o chefe a envia para um congresso fora da cidade e no hotel descobre... Read more

Annika und der Austauschstudent

By: Lucy Rush

Narrated by: Lucy Rush

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Annika trifft auf einer Party einen Austauschstudenten und wird mit ihm intim... Read more

جولة بين حانات البحر المتوسط

By: علي الدوعاجي

Narrated by: هاني رعد

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"مجموعة قصصية تتناول رحلة حافلة بلمسات شاعرية مفعمة بالمرح والسخرية والطرافة والعبث البريء لسائح يسافر، سنة 1933 عبر شواطئ المتوسط، فينطلق من تونس ليمر بعدد من موانئ المتوسط: سردينيا، كورسيكا، نيس، مرسيليا، نابولي، بومباي، بيره (بيريوس) أثينا، الدردنيل، إسطنبول، أزمير، ويعود مرةً أخرى إلى بلده تونس. زين رحلته برسوم بسيطة معبرة، تكشف عن مزاجه... Read more

Bait and Switch & other stories

By: Ashley Sievwright

Narrated by: Ashley Sievwright

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From teenage memories of staying with a cross-dressing cousin in Sydney, to estranged siblings scattering the ashes of a family member, not to mention perplexing encounters in Jordan, these eight stories reflect on family, friendship, desire and belonging in a queer world.Ashley Sievwright is the author of the novels The Shallow End (Shortlisted... Read more

These Precious Hours

By: Michael Corrigan

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

These Precious Hours is a collection of related and interconnected stories concerning loss and recovery. At the end, many of the characters meet.
Declan Mulligan has lost a wife and visits Ireland to connect with a remote past. Dexter Flanagan has lost a beautiful woman to another, but writes a great love song. After a personal tragedy, Sean... Read more

Kultasankaiset silmälasit

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Julius Chavez

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Vanha professori Coram on hankkinut itselleen kirjurin kirjan kirjoittamista varten. Tehtävään palkattu nuori ja hyväkäytöksinen Willoughby Smith kuitenkin murhataan professorin työhuoneeseen – ja viimeisinä sanoinaan hän kertoo murhaajan olleen nainen.Kaikki ovat ymmällään. Mitä ihmettä on voinut tapahtua? Ei siis ole ihme, että apuun... Read more

The Christmas Candle

By: Max Lucado

Narrated by: Ben Holland

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado comes a timeless message that will warm your heart.“The Christmas Candle shines with a radiant insight. Written with Max Lucado’s signature style of sincerity and spiritual perception, this story will warm the reader’s heart with the wonders of God’s love and mercy.” —In the Library... Read more

Until We Have Faces

By: Michael Nye

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In a style reminiscent of John Cheever and Alice Munro, Michael Nye's second collection of stories, Until We Have Faces, contends with transfixing themes: marital and familial estrangement, ways of trespass, the intractable mysteries and frights of modern life, the uncertainty of knowledge and truth, the gulfs between people and the technology... Read more

Monstress

By: Lysley Tenorio

Narrated by: Reuben Uy & Chelsea Javier

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A luminous collection of heartbreaking, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino communities of California and the Philippines—now with a new preface by the author  Monstress stands as a landmark of American multicultural short fiction. Lysley Tenorio’s tales are framed by tense, fascinating dichotomies: tenderness and... Read more

Bonds of Love & Blood: Short Stories

By: Marylee MacDonald

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve stories of wayward travelers. Twelve stamps on the passport of the soul. Walter struggles to see past his disfigurement, but a trip to Thailand and a mysterious woman may challenge his quest for perfection. Married to a workaholic, Leslie is accustomed to solitude until her overbearing Indian mother-in-law turns her kitchen into a verbal... Read more

مأوى الغياب

By: منصورة عز الدين

Narrated by: رنا الخطيب

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"يضم الكتاب 16 قصة من بينها: "من خشب وهلاوس"، "قلعة الشمس"، "جبل الغيم"، "لا فريسة ولا صياد"، "واحة التيه" و"شجرة تشبه لؤلؤة." وجاء في كلمة الناشر إن"" مأوى الغياب مكانٌ مشيّدٌ من الكلمات. كل من فيه ينتمي إلى عالم خيالاته، ويعيش في حالة من الهواجس والشكوك. عالم مستسلم للغموض والطلاسم وعاشق لزئبقية اللاثبات واللايقين. في هذا المأوى لا نعرف إن كان... Read more

Uit de pas en andere verhalen

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Jeroen Kramer

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Een tocht langs antieke erfstukken en moderne romances, langs zaken doen op het scherpst van de snede en vriendelijke vreemdelingen, langs de levens van machthebbers en levens die bevrijd zijn van onderdrukking. In deze verhalenbundel wordt fortuin gemaakt en vergooid, eer verraden en eer hersteld, er worden liefdes verloren en liefdes... Read more

From a Funeral to a Wedding

By: Martin Lundqvist

Narrated by: Martin Lundqvist & Elaine Hidayat

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A flash fiction story about a man who fakes his own death to make his wedding day appear to be his funeral. He does this to circumvent the rules that are in place because of the hyped flu. Read more

5 korta och udda historier volym 1

By: Martin Lundqvist

Narrated by: Martin Lundqvist

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Fem udda historier volym 1 innehåller följande historier.100 TinderdejterMartins uppdrag i KinaMordet på tåget.Nyfikenhet räddade katten.Pengatvätt vid tvättomaten Read more

Out of the Woods

By: E. Christopher Clark

Narrated by: E. Christopher Clark

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

On one side of the forest lay the lands of psychological realism. On the other rest the realms of fantasy and fabulism. And in the long shadows of the trees themselves… Three sons send their father to Valhalla in his old jalopy. A rusted robot waits on the stone wall by a child’s bus stop. An undertaker is one coin short at the river Styx. And... Read more

Ett sagobröllop

By: Martin Lundqvist

Narrated by: Martin Lundqvist

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

En kort historia om en man som befinner sig på ett bröllop när han drömmer sig iväg om vad ett sagobröllop skulle innebära. Read more

The Adventures of a Book’s Life

By: Mary E. Haynes

Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Adventures of a Book’s Life, tells the story of how books can communicate, see, hear and feel. It starts out in a library and then is moved, with some assistance to a “ USED” book store. All the while, having adventures trying to find a “HOME!” It dislikes “Dog Earing,” and being placed by scary books and books that have chos and mayhem in... Read more

Mordet på tåget

By: Martin Lundqvist

Narrated by: Martin Lundqvist

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

En kort historia om en kvinna som utför det perfekta mordet för att hämnas sin familj och uppmärksamma folkmordet i Rwanda. Read more

Pengatvätt vid tvättomaten - Abridged

By: Martin Lundqvist

Narrated by: Martin Lundqvist

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En kort historia om en turist som kommer f;rbi en mystisk tvättomat. Genom att spela månskensonaten lyckas turisten öppna en lönngång och hittar en massa pengar. Read more

Micromegas and Other Short Fictions

By: Francois Voltaire

Narrated by: Roy McMillan

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Roy McMillan, narrator of Underland by Robert MacFarlane, The Second Sleep by Robert Harris and Love is Blind by William Boyd. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Haydn Mason and is translated by translated by Theo Cuffe.

Something between a tale and a polemic, these... Read more